“It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.” PeopleWorldWayLooksImportantAblePoliticalConsciousnessFocusOne ThingGroupsBlameGenderCriticalHandleEtcRealisticPreferenceWhitenessIntersectionalityFocus On One Thing Author:Bell Hooks
“You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.” IfsGrowsFocusFindingsBlameShortcomingsFinding Someone Book:How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward Source: How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward
“Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time.” PersonsProblemTogetherNextBreakFocusFiguresBlameSolveComplainingCriticizeNext TimeCondemning Author:Dale Carnegie
“It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantTryingHas BeensSaidSeemsIssuesFocusFootballInvolvedBlameCarefulAriseTwistsPlaying FootballBlame Me Author:Lionel Messi
“It can't only be men who are the focus of assault prevention. Women should be too. To say that that puts the blame on victims to have to prevent their own assault is crap and has to be treated as crap.” MenShouldFocusVictimBlameTreatedCrapAssaultBe A ManPrevention Author:Laura Kipnis
“The fact that there could be an ISIS West Bank, the fact that the Palestinian government in Gaza doesn't even acknowledge Israel's right to exist, the fact of constant terror, delegitimization campaigns in the Palestinian schools, these are all much bigger facts. And for the Barack Obama administration to focus on this one fact, almost, not to the expense, but to diminish some of the others which are much more important, is to cast all the blame on Israel and to take the U.N. policy toward Israel, which has been longstanding, and sort of surrender to it.” ImportantSchoolFocusPolicyBlameTerrorSurrenderBarackAcknowledgePalestinianGaza Author:David Brooks
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.” FeelsMayDoeMatterReasonInspirationSpiritualTimeFocusSucceedWasteSelf ImprovementBlameFaultsUnhappyGuiltyFrustrationUnhappinessWasting TimeWasted TimeBlaming OthersPower Of IntentionExternalities Author:Wayne Dyer
“If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.” IfsLooksReasonProblemFocusTalentThousandBlameSimplicityUnhappyUnhappinessResentful Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.” HeartHateEnergyEasyFocusMy HeartEasierBlameMadRhythmSettlingAcheOrdealsBeing Sad Book:Baby Proof: A Novel Source: Baby Proof: A Novel
“The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.” ThinkingNeedsHeartInterestRealizingLosesAbilityPracticeFocusMeditationJudgingEssentialsElementsLosingYogaBlameCriticalDistractedTransformingBegin AgainMeditation Practice Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWaySometimesHappensCoursesPathFocusThis WorldBlameBad People Author:Andrea Corr
“Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.” MenTryingFacesPayFocusHe ManTaxesEthicsGunVictimBlameCoercion Author:Stefan Molyneux