Life Focus Quotes

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

I work to live, not live to work, so my head's at home, not in some showbiz life.

The only two things that I think about in life is my family and golf. That's all I want to think about.

Music is all I know.

If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

My life is not just about the past.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Young people coming up who are having difficulty with their so-called celebrity need to get back into their lives. It's your life and you can't let the fact that you do something pretty good take away the joy of it.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

Cleveland has been my life.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

Enjoy life's moments. Do not take them for granted, because you never know which one will be the last. Also, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you. In other words, get your priorities straight; figure out what really matters, and focus on that.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.

I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.

In youth, love and art. In age, investments and antiques.