#focus

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind. ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#focus #nature

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people. ↗

— Winifred Gallagher

#attention #creative #experiential #focus #instrumental

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#directed #feeling #focus #i #like

I try to stay focused on my creativity. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#focused #i #stay #stay focused #try

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it. ↗

— Tom Araya

#especially #focus #good #i #really

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#been #culture #fbi #focused #massive

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#clubs #focus #i #jamming #mates

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#fancy #focusing #i #i think #kind

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#classical #classical music #everything #focus #i

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#energy #focus #hard #hitting #like