Focused Quotes - Page 30

• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Wings, Agony, Waiting

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• Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds.

  Debbie Ford

  Self Confidence, Building Up, Voice

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• The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Country, September 11, Terrorism

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• Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Thinking, Impact, Issues

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• I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

  Michel Gondry

  Jobs, Cutting, Jumping

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• Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

  Ken Auletta

  Passion, Vision, Batteries

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• I'm a gay man who came from the last years of illegality. That focused my whole character. I think it focused everyone's character in a way. You saw yourself as outside of the main structure.

  Rupert Everett

  Character, Gay, Men

  "Rupert Everett: 'If I'd been straight? I'd be doing what Hugh Grant and Colin Firth do, I suppose" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.

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• Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Law, People, Important

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• In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

  Sandra Fluke

  Rights, Years, Two

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• It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

  James S. Coleman

  Teenager, Eye, Data

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• It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Talking, Sound, Natural

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• What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.

  Mary Fallin

  Strong, Jobs, Children

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• The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.

  Robert Greenwald

  Baby, Fate, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

  Chris Hughes

  Ideas, People, Company

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• I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

  Michael C. Hall

  Want, Shows, Right Now

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• But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.

  Ryan Hall

  Nice, Race, Olympics

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• Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.

  Chanel Iman

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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• No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.

  Chanel Iman

  Dog, Baby, Careers

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• I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!

  Chanel Iman

  Party, Work Out, Yeah

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• You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

  Keith Jarrett

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Keith Jarrett, Part II: The Q&A". Interview with David Shenk, www.theatlantic.com. October 13, 2009.

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• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  Etgar Keret

  Beautiful, Want, Sometimes

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

  Jon Krakauer

  Autism, Heaven, Projects

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• When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Lying, Writing, Europe

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• Pause and remember - The more you stay focused on your blessings the less stressed your life will be!

  Jennifer Young

  Blessing, Negativity, Stressed

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• I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

  David Knopfler

  People, Tears, Weakness

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