Primary Focus Quotes

Maintaining good health should be the primary focus of everyone.

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your body is tense, don't start with the mind. Wait. Work on the body. And just small things are of immense help.

It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services or products, but it is quite another to take on responsibilities that are far from your primary job as Entrepreneur.

My primary focus will be Malayalam films. I will choose from what comes my way and take a call irrespective of the language.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

Acting is secondary - I don't feel like it's going to stick around because it's not something I want to do forever. My art has always been my top priority and I have far more experience in that field than I do in film.

The principal person in a picture is light.

There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has... In your sketches keep the first vivid impression! Add no details that shall weaken it! Look first for the big things! 1st. Proportions! 2nd. Values - or masses of light and shade. 3rd. Details that will not spoil the beginnings!

First Things First

Acting is fun. It's not my whole life. It's not my entire being. It's secondary to my life. My life is primary. I'm running in the primary, as you know.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Certainly for some time, people used to think of my solo career as somehow a side project to Porcupine Tree. No. If anything, the opposite would now have to be the case.

Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.

The overwhelming majority of my material has very little to do with my weight. It's certainly not the crux of my material.

The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time.

The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

And the live show is still our main thing.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.