Top 590 Focused Quotes

I’d rather spend my time with grape growers than actors. In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.
Gerard Depardieu
I like the hypnosis. Nothing too deep – just enough to keep me clearer and more focused.
Jimmy White
My life isn’t focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I’m doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.
George Clooney
It sounds really cheesy, but I’ve just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it’s the catering crew or the famous photographer.
Gigi Hadid
When you're in between the white lines, the game face i

When you’re in between the white lines, the game face is on. I was only focused on the task at hand – out, safe, ball, strike – leaving little time to think about how special a player, moment or game happened to be.
Doug Harvey
I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you’re not into it, you’re not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it’s a business of the limelight.
Deepika Padukone
I think one of the mistakes actors make is we’re so focused on what we’re going to say.
Mariska Hargitay
If I train well and stay focused, I’m confident I can deliver when the time comes.
Ashley Wagner
I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.
Joyce Meyer
We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.
Peter MacKay
I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept me focused on what I was there to do and how I wanted to go about it. I took it a step at a time.
Cheryl Ladd
I’m not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.
Alexander Downer
I’m focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
Dane Cook
Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.
LL Cool J
When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.
Viswanathan Anand
My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we’d do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
Pardis Sabeti
I try not to get caught up in how our society is so inundated with images, and stay very focused on the work that I’m doing.
Lynsey Addario
As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
Pranab Mukherjee
Focused. I’m a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.
Mos Def
I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.
Adam Scott
When I’m practicing, I think I’m pretty focused, and I spend a lot of energy on making sure I get better, but once I’m outside the rink, I think, like anyone else, I like to enjoy everything that everyone else does.
Sidney Crosby
I think I’ve succeeded more by learning what needed to be done next and getting help in getting it done. I was just very focused and impatient.
John Kendrew
I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Stanley A. McChrystal
My father was a bricklayer, and my mother was a housewife. It was complicated, obviously, because of our humble origin, but thank God we were all focused.
Jose Aldo
I’m focused on energy only. And I know what I’m talking about. And I don’t want to be distracted on other things.
T. Boone Pickens
The Green Revolution focused on the big three – maize, rice and wheat – and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
Bill Gates
We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common – which is – we all want to be happy.
Ellen DeGeneres
My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.
Ashton Eaton
I’ve always been really internally focused. I tend to focus on hiring – ensuring that every person we hire is both a really good fit and really good – and also that everything we put out to our users is very high-quality.
Arash Ferdowsi
I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.
Chadwick Boseman
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
Peter Diamandis
Me and my brother are so focused on working together, building our careers.
A. J. Pritchard
I think you’ll see if you look at ‘Up’, we’ve focused a lot on labor (and the forces trying to keep labor down) and have featured everything from Wal Mart workers, to on-the-ground organizers, to union presidents to restaurant workers sitting at the table sharing their experience and expertise.
Chris Hayes
I’m in a ‘I can do whatever’ phase. I’m taking this ‘106 & Park’ opportunity into full force. I’m really focused on doing my best with it. This is my ‘Fresh Prince’ moment. I want to be the black Ryan Seacrest of film, TV, and more.
Bow Wow
When I got into the music industry, I wasn’t focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
Janelle Monae
When I am training, I don't want any disturbances. I ha

When I am training, I don’t want any disturbances. I have to be focused, not losing sight of my targets. I cannot evade the fact that I am now well known and I have made already some money, but you can learn how to deal with it.
David Rudisha
My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I’m focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.
Kristi Noem
I’ve never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It’s funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you’re not doing it correctly.
Rodney Atkins
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
David Milne
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
Our entire team is focused on managing this company for value – fixing or eliminating those operations that lessen value and expanding or adding those that enhance value.
Phil Condit
I always felt that the music sells by itself. The music has always been the successful aspect on my career, and that means that, to me, I can always still stay very focused on music.
Enya
There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how ‘Speed’ is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.
Emile Hirsch
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I’ve written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What’s the fun of that?
Alex Chilton
The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.
Stephen Cambone
‘That’s What She Said’ is not Hollywood’s standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up ‘girl’ women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
Carrie Preston
Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.
Heston Blumenthal
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn’t like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
Reggie Watts
The south is very focused on family… the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.
Jason Isbell
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
John Olver
As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.
Tracee Ellis Ross
Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you – a real and objective danger.
Robin Marantz Henig