“Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.” StatesDemocracyFocusConflictSoleConstructsExposureDefence Author:Anthony de Jasay
“When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time.” NeedsI CanPlayInterestCan DoFocusConflictSeasonsBallsBoxesAppropriateOffseasonCompartmentalizing Author:Larry Fitzgerald
“When people respond too quickly, they often respond to the wrong issue. Listening helps us focus on the heart of the conflict. When we listen, understand, and respect each other's ideas, we can then find a solution in which both of us are winners.” PeopleHeartIdeasHelpingIssuesFocusListeningConflictSolutionsWinnerWorkplaceRespect Each Other Author:Gary Chapman
“In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.” ShouldEndsFocusTeacherAchieveJudgingKeysMonthsNeededConflictElementsTrainingDoctorsPoliceSoldierInternationalIraqOfficersInvolvementPolice OfficerRobust Author:John Olver
“I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie. But I don't see the fight as a clash of civilizations. Rather, we must focus on avoiding exactly this type of conflict. We have to return to dialogue, to mutual understanding and to an acknowledgement of freedom of opinion.” WorldFeelsBelieveHas BeensI CanFightingUnderstandingOpinionFocusTypeReturnCivilizationSceneConflictDialogueProphetMutualAvoidingMuhammadClashCaricaturesAcknowledgementMutual UnderstandingProphet MuhammadClash Of Civilizations Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen
“There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.” PeopleNeedsRealDemocracyIssuesFocusMilitaryDangerBuildingConflictDistracted Author:Ted Cruz
“We've always defined conflict fairly broadly from ideological conflict to troops on the ground. For quite some time we've talked about a focus on Palestine. Certainly no one can deny that Israel is conflict with Palestine and no one can deny that the U.S. is the largest supporter of Israel internationally - not only financially, but also in the United Nations where the United States is one of the very few countries that does not recognize Palestine as a state.” DoeCountryStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesFocusConflictIsraelDenyDefinedTroopsSupporterPalestineUnited NationsIdeological Author:Jon Rubin
“The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.” FeelsTryingWarLightSpiritDarkFocusPossibilityGreatnessConflictSkinsSeekingUncertaintyHatedInternalsRaysRollingAvoidedRestlessnessUnendingInternal Conflict Author:Brendon Burchard
“Me being from a Celtic culture that tends to emphasize directness, conflict, openness has a big effect on my living in Japan, which tends to focus on indirectness, avoidance of conflict and keeping things close to your chest. So that has led to quite a lot of cultural misunderstandings in dealing with this East Asian culture I live in.” BigsCultureFocusEffectsConflictEastJapanChestsOpennessMisunderstandingAsianAvoidanceCelticAsian Culture Author:Sean Michael Wilson
“Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.” PeopleIfsFirstsHumansImportantBigsGovernmentFocusRightsConflictHuman Rights Author:Nikki Haley
“A change initiative can fail for multiple reasons - in fact, there are just too many things that can go wrong. The focus of the initiative might be wrong - too narrow or too broad. The initiative might be poorly executed or under-resourced. But most often, a change initiative fails because it hits a behavioral impasse. Something in the culture of the company is in conflict with the objective or execution of the initiative.” ReasonCultureFocusFailingConflictInitiativeMultiple Author:James A. Champy
“Typically efforts to address values and ethics in business education and leadership development tend to focus on building Awareness and teaching Analysis. That is, we expose future leaders to the kinds of ethical and values conflicts they may encounter, so that they will recognize them and will have considered them in advance.” KindValuesEffortLeaderFocusTeachingAwarenessBuildingConflictEthicsEthical Author:Mary C. Gentile
“I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.” KnowsLittlesSelfCertainAsksFocusConflictActressesI RealizedVainAccomplishedSelf Absorbed Author:Diane Kruger
“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.” WorldDifferentReasonFocusConflictPercentContentious Book:Every Day Source: Every Day
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.” WorldDifferentMatterReasonRealizingCommonRaceFocusConflictPercentNo Matter WhatComplicatedGenderBackgroundsInabilityContentious Book:Every Day Source: Every Day
“Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.” ImportantEnergyMistakeIssuesFocusRiskTeamConflictMembersWeaknessCollaborationOfferingAssistanceFeedbackConsensusTime And EnergyImportant Issues Author:Patrick Lencioni