Keeping Focussed Quotes & Sayings

If karma comes for me today...I plan on shooting the bitch right between the eyes. — Suzanne Steele

Casting people as victims works very effectively to keep them powerless. By keeping them focussed on all the bad in their lives, it leaves them eaten up with resentment for an entire lifetime and prevents them from taking those first steps toward an exceptional life. — Genevieve Davis

There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it. — Noam Shpancer

I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all. — Karen Joy Fowler

After bread, education is the first need of the people. — Georges Danton

As a filmmaker, like any artist, when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts, my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician, you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally. — Ryan Coogler

I'm not in love with Bridgette," he says calmly. "She's my sister. — Colleen Hoover

I haven't been around here for long. Well ... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me. — P.W. Catanese

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face. — Rick Yancey

There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do. — Paul Lansky

Good. Evil. They're just words. — Lauren Kate

I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind altogether. She couldn't charm her way out from under Macon's watch. She would have to resort to older magic, stronger magic, the kind that had worked best on Macon from the time she first moved to Ravenwood. Plain old love. — Kami Garcia

I see something between you two. I do not see it often. You have something rare and precious. You must treat your love like the most valuable thing you will ever own. Don't ever let it get away from you. You will regret it your entire life, I assure you. — Andrea Laurence