Lack of Focus Quotes

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

I do think we lost some of the focus on the attacks in San Bernardino and focused on a plan that isn't really a plan and is never going to happen.

From where I sit, I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble, they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot more money.

It was a relief to get dropped which is sad in a way because you never want to miss a game. But I was not performing and mentally I got to a stage where I was not concentrating and did not want to be there. I was not enjoying walking out there and feeling like I didn't know where the next run was coming from.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

This man will never finish anything. He thinks about the end before he thinks about the beginning.

People without clear vision are easily distracted, have a tendency to drift from one idea to another and often make foolish decisions that rob them of their dreams.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.

I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.

A point in every direction is the same as having no point at all.

I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.