Individual Focus Quotes

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

I think, mostly for people on the outside, it's a lot about numbers or stats. More or more. That's how the football world is going, in that direction. But I'm not really looking into it. I'm just trying to be the best I can, to create as much as possible.

Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.

My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look.

God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me.

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

All I really worry about is my little world.

That's just a stressful way to live - saying, 'OK who's doing great, who's doing better than me?' ... Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

What's true of the Marvel brand is that we're not as invested in the cape and the cowl as we are in the individuals. That goes all the way back to Stan Lee, from the very beginning.

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings.

One person at a time, one company at a time.

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

A prudent consideration for Number One.

I try not to measure myself against other players.

When I got drafted I just wanted to play one game in the NHL. I didn't really care anything about winning.

I don't get that involved in politics because I'm in my dance bubble.

Good athletes will be there at good competitions, but I don't think about them; I just think of bettering my own time.

No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

I might find myself standing, transfixed, by the roadside, watching a sparrowhawk hunting among the bushes, astonished that other people could ignore it. But they might just as well be wondering how I could have failed to notice the new V6 Pentastar Sahara that just drove past.