When I was starting a small printing shop in Wembley, I vividly remember coming out of the cinema, realising I had spent the two hours worrying about that month’s payroll, rather than focusing on the film.
You don’t get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
Social media is such a powerful tool and I would love it to be a hub of celebration rather than focusing on negativity.
Robert Louis Stevenson… I’m focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys’ author, but he’s not at all.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we’re focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.
Now I am just focusing on my daughter, my wife, religion, and training.
It’s about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.
We’ve got to stop focusing solely on the symptoms of crime, and start caring about the causes as well.
A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
For every athlete, Olympics is the target, but mine is a little different. I am focusing on improving my timing; that’s what I think about.
From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn’t realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.
For me, there’s a subtlety in focusing on the right shape of T-shirt and pant. I recognise that it’s boring, but the idea is to catch people off-guard and reward them in some valuable way.
I’m doing more acting, but I’m also focusing on strongman.
The most important thing to me is facing people head on and focusing on not disappointing the public.
I could spend my life focusing on getting rid of straws in our society.
It’s long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women’s health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.
We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.
There have been ups and downs in my life, and at a point of time, I had thought of even quitting from films, by focusing on dance alone.
I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts’ work in the White House, as in the counselor’s office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.
In Afghanistan, the viceroy approach would reduce rampant fraud by focusing spending on initiatives that further the central strategy, rather than handing cash to every outstretched hand from a U.S. system bereft of institutional memory.
Even prior to marriage and motherhood, it’s always been about prioritising and focusing on what you can commit to. That’s been my approach to every aspect of my life, be it my relationships or my professional commitments.
Paralympics has always had to push the media into it being about sport and not focusing on the disability.
Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now.
We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that’s the real opportunity.
I’m working a lot. Keeping my head down and focusing and trying to take advantage of the opportunities that have come my way.
I am looking neither backward nor ahead. I am not thinking of what Salman has done earlier and what is the competition for my film. I am only focusing on getting it right in ‘Kick.’
As a player I had a few idols but that’s not really interesting any more. I was a striker and focusing on guys like Marco van Basten but as a coach I want to make my own footsteps.
Mentors can gain so much wisdom from really focusing on what their mentees are saying. Once a person knows you’re truly listening, both parties will establish trust over time that will allow the mentee to open up and express themselves openly without fear of judgement.
When I came to the national camp, I wore my pads to get the feel. I started to kick the ball, then stood in the pole and it felt positive. Since then, I am just focusing on making myself better than before.
I’m very flattered because Margot Robbie is insanely beautiful, but it’s always annoying to have people focusing on your looks as opposed to what you’re actually doing on the job. But also, I’ll take it. There are worse people to be compared to.
Zoom does not focus on revenue goals, but rather we have confidence that focusing on the happiness of existing customers and our employees will organically increase growth.
People say that the best part about doing animation is that you don’t have to dress up to go to work, but I don’t believe that. I dress up to go to work. I dress up for an airplane. I think it’s just focusing your skillset, focusing on your voice and the comedy.
To be honest, I’m focusing on me and my brand and wherever that takes me.
I certainly have the problem of focusing on doing everything now to get where I want to be, and not actually seeing and taking in and appreciating what’s right in front of me or who’s right in front of me.
I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I’ll appreciate my health if I get better.
If we want, we can be profitable, but we are focusing on growth. We don’t comment on profitability, but we do look at it internally. And many of our Ola cities are profitable. But our focus across all cities is growth.
My goal is to the best player in the NBA. That’s what I’m focusing on each and every day.
The term we use on our team is ‘reset’: when you go through, whether it’s a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity – not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.
You take the opportunities when you get them, and you try to see if there’s any cues the opposition gives you, but more important is focusing on your own process, trusting your instincts, and being decisive.
I’m just going to tour; that’s the best way for people to get to know me. Focusing on the international stuff and breaking in to the States and U.K.
In the ‘Dreamblood’ books, I’m focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.
Being in a band was so fun and exciting, but I was just kind of focusing more on performance and wasn’t really writing the songs – I didn’t really think I had a voice.
We need to transform our military forces by focusing on force posture, not force structure.
I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.
I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I’ve been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn’t have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.
Of course, you want to be respected by your peers, and you want people to connect to you as an artist, but for me, it’s more about staying true to myself and doing something I believe in and focusing on that.
Women face unique challenges in society, no doubt. But focusing narrowly on women as a special interest group isn’t the winning play. The ability to pay your bills, send your kids to a good school, and keep your family safe are ‘women’s issues’ after all.
A lot of times, I put my own personal health to the side, focusing on work or family or getting ahead. At the end of the day, you’re just exhausted on your couch and haven’t made that doctor’s appointment, didn’t make that phone call, and feel terrible.
