Be Focused Quotes

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

Usually people are very much focused on keeping their kids alive.

The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.

Little decisions were made, every day. In this movie [The Hunger Games], we really focused on Cinna and we didn't get time to focus on the other stylist.

I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.

Every conversation I have almost always revolves around, you know, personnel and policy focused on producing results.

After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.

Everything is worship if your mind is focused on the present moment.

Love is beyond time or rather love is both time and space but all focused on one single constantly evolving point-the Aleph.

Florence is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It's very quiet as well - there's not much nightlife - so it definitely keeps me focused on the work.

I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

I would describe myself as a hard worker, very humble and focused on whatever it is that I put my mind to.

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.

A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused.

Google and Facebook extend internet access across the world, but the access is generally speaking to an internet that is focused on the advertisers to those sites.

If you arent focused on success, youre failing.

I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.

It just feels good to play again. That's what keeps me going. I've focused harder because of it.

It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve the basin - sometimes big projects.

Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating.

Keep your hope in the Lord and your eyes focused on the hope of Heaven, not just on the here and now.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

Tuon's eyes snapped open, and despite the dim light, she focused directly on Mat. She saw the knife in his hand, ready to throw. Then she looked over her shoulder.

Clarity precedes mastery and the more clear you can get on what you want to create in life, the more focused you will be in your daily behaviors.

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

I want everyone focused on tomorrow, not yesterday.

Words aren't hurting anybody. Words are not causing any damage, not expressly and not directly. But we're so focused on the words.

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

One of the keys to focus, and why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.

I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.

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.

Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

Stay out of the gentlemen's clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.

We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.