Focus Quotes - page 60

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present. (Doris Lessing)
All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It's a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible. View quote
Doris Lessing
A visionary leader seeks to empower others. They continue to search for truth while maintaining their principle-centered focus. Visionary leaders have a good balance between right-brain and leftbrain thinking. The right brain is more feminine, nurturing, intuitive and creative; the left-brain is more masculine and "physical,” interested more in results. Visionary leaders often produce a host of solutions for social, economic and other types of problems. If we want visionary leaders, we must, of course, learn to recognize them and support them. Visionary leaders have great qualities, which they develop through their interest in values, intuition and partnership with others. They can bring spiritual culture to our religious and political lives. Mahatma Gandhi once said, "I must first be the change I want to see in my world.”. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive. View quote
Edward de Bono
Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus. View quote
Edward de Bono
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis. View quote
Jodie Foster
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine. View quote
Jodie Foster
I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world. View quote
Jodie Foster
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. View quote
Michael Jordan
Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people. View quote
Wole Soyinka
'Because it's there' could never be enough of an explanation for entering politics. ... My focus on work comes from my own childhood and my own personal experience. My parents, particularly Dad, taught me through word and deed that the world does not owe you a living. That you should expect throughout your life to be required to earn what you intend to spend. (Julia Gillard)
If the boat started shaking, we stayed on course and didn't lose focus. That made the difference. View quote
Sebastian Vettel
My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them. View quote
Katy Perry
I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about. View quote
Nicolas Cage
I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous. View quote
Demi Moore
With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems. View quote
Josette Sheeran
Business and human endeavors are systems...we tend to focus on snapshots of isolated parts of the system. And wonder why our deepest problems never get solved. View quote
Peter Senge
The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time. View quote
Rod Serling
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea. View quote
Neil Postman
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution. View quote
Greg Graffin
If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit. (Muhammad Yunus)
I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life. View quote
Judy Blume
I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. View quote
Judy Blume
Western Journalists again and again systematically ignore serious Muslim attacks and rather focus on the Jews. View quote
Anders Behring Breivik
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live. View quote
Cameron Diaz