I try to focus on what I’m supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it’s supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should. – Jeremy Lin
I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don’t normally get their voices heard. – Alexandra Robbins
I don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s not my focus. – Beyonce Knowles
I sort of forgot about ‘Z Channel’ after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I’ll probably be this way until I’m 80, babbling about ‘Z Channel.’ – Alexandra Cassavetes
My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn’t mean I have to shout at people. – James Lankford
When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast. – Ian Beattie
Teenagers only have to focus on themselves – its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist. – Jennifer Lawrence
I kind of focus on my own stuff, really, and then when people come into my territory, I’ve got to fight them away, and that’s what we do every time fight night happens. – Anthony Joshua
When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids. – Johnny Depp
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 also focus on Bush and his administration – who do a lot of lying – and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn’t be able to get away with. – Al Franken
Louis Vuitton, the world’s biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image. – Bernard Arnault
When writers don’t know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character. – J. Michael Straczynski
Our top focus – protecting our Nation – must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen. – Bill Frist
What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don’t think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience. – Aaron Levie
At some point during my travels, I had a slight change of focus which would end up defining the rest of my career. I began taking pictures of people. In addition to all the buildings, street signs and fire hydrants, I started photographing some of the interesting humans that passed by me on the street. – Brandon Stanton
Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It’s hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone. – August Wilson
I’m rather a practical person. I just get on and focus on what I have to do. I just don’t get sleepless or suffer from the jitters. – Anna Maxwell Martin
In college, I didn’t perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, ‘Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.’ – Jack McBrayer
My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes – I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More ‘va va voom,’ I guess you can say. – Becky G
I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things. – Jennifer Lopez
I’m noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum’s ‘Younger Than Jesus’ last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I’m seeing it blossom and bear fruit at ‘Greater New York,’ MoMA P.S. 1’s twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent. – Jerry Saltz
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners. – Barack Obama
However, we couldn’t focus on the films much during the series because we’re dumb. Individually we’re smart guys, but together we’re one big dumb guy, and couldn’t concentrate on two things at once. – Bruce McCulloch
The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating – and preferably decelerating. – Alan Greenspan