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“Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.”

Way Wells Looks Two Different Hard Eye Culture Vision Focus Fields Photographer Details Distinction Two Ways

Author:John Paul Caponigro

“The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.”

Focus Asking Photographer Intuition Golden Composition Golden Rule Reflexes Framing Sharpness Trust Your Intuition Asking Yourself Questions

Author:Jacques-Henri Lartigue

“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.”

Needs I Can Play Interest Can Do Focus Conflict Seasons Balls Boxes Appropriate Offseason Compartmentalizing

Author:Larry Fitzgerald

“My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost.”

Knows Firsts Jobs Focus Balls Expected Toasts

Author:Larry Fitzgerald

“Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.”

Years Firsts Shows Remember Next Actors Successful Focus Example Tvs Musician Versions Pilots Tape Tv Shows Auditions Demos Famous Musician Famous Actor

Author:Derek Sivers

“Oftentimes, people start with something, whatever it is, and it's great, but over the years, it loses its focus or way and corners get cut. Some people are fine with that, but I'm not.”

People Way Years Loses Focus Cutting Fine Corners

Author:Zachary Levi

“Due to people's health, and certain things that have happened to people's physicality because of their healthy, that would probably keep us from touring per se. It doesn't mean that the original band wouldn't someday do a song. But our focus is on the current band, and moving into the future, as far as touring is concerned.”

People Mean Moving Certain Song Focus Happened Healthy Band Concerned Originals Currents Dues Someday Touring Physicality

Author:Phil Ehart

“Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.”

Happens Guy Lost Loses Deals Focus Football Sight Caught Things Happen Caught Up Endorsements Business Deals

Author:Peyton Manning

“I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.”

Opportunity Focus Risk Managers Fence Builder Singles Maximizing Minimizing Swinging For The Fences

Author:Steve Case

“There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.”

Ifs Enough Seems Beautiful Focus Mundane Something Beautiful Microscopes

Author:Ed Helms

“I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Would Be Too Much Focus Risk One Thing Being The Best Sensible Focus On One Thing

Author:Doc Brown

“I think experimentation with other stuff is great. My real focus has been more-so trying to create a sound that I can build upon and get really comfortable with. I think almost everything is experimentation 'til you find what it is that your sound is.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens I Can Real Stuff Sound Focus Comfortable Get Real Experimentation

Author:Hoodie Allen

“One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.”

Church Focus Building Members Majors Disciple

Author:Tony Evans

“I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.”

Writing Trying Humans Focus Sorrow Various Spending Celebrate Celebration Being Human

Author:Sarah Kay

“I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.”

Trying Certain Focus Style Weight Muscles Lifting Contractions Contracting

Author:Ronnie Coleman

“Fitness and proper nutrition truly go hand-in-hand. Focus on eating clean and filling your plate with veggies, fruits, whole grains and lean proteins. And, everyone hates to do it, but calorie counting is crucial to weight loss as well as maintaining a healthy physique.”

“It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.”

People Ideas Hard Focus

Author:Conor Oberst

“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Writing Ideas Focus Teaching Structure Poetry Is Composition Essays Writing Poetry Writing Essays

Author:Aaron Belz

“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.”

“I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.”

Way Inspirational Mind Body Focus Dance Active Resistance Dancer Feminine Swimming Hiking Good Way Cardio Cardiovascular Exercise

Author:Ashley Greene

“In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.”

Years Matter Party Focus Los Angeles Going Out Eighteen

Author:Ashley Greene

“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.”

Source: Marva Collins Way

“There is something very sensual about a letter. The physical contact of pen to paper, the time set aside to focus thoughts, the folding of the paper into the envelope, licking it closed, addressing it, a chosen stamp, and then the release of the letter to the mailbox - are all acts of tenderness.”

Focus Paper Letters Chosen Contact Release Sensual Pens Tenderness Stamps Envelopes Licking Folding Mailboxes

Book:Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard.”

Heart Helping Wanted Faces Parent Voice Challenges Issues Focus Wife Heard Military My Heart Decided Pressure Loved Ones Closest Peers Coping Single Parent Working Women

Author:Michelle Obama

“Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.”

Mind Moments Humor Success Attention Focus Failure Perspective Balance Luck Labels Present Moment Constructs Good Luck Success And Failure Good Humor

Author:Tom Bergeron

“My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.”

People Way Firsts Looks Has Beens Focus Talent Constant Theme Emphasis Reminders

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?”

Ifs Thinking Life Believe Art Real Action Effort Focus Perception Management Real Life Impression Why Not Gaps Virtuous Trustworthy Persuading

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.”

Knows Firsts Important Energy Know How Focus Husband Important Things Trivia

Author:Michael Korda

“Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.”

“There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.”

Thinking Way Firsts May Three Ability Focus Pieces Information Rounds Data Streams Contemplating Interrupted

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?”

People Feels Made Nations Watches Focus Security Strive Notion Checks Worried Insecure Clearance

Book:Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World

“By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.”

Needs Giving Done Decision Focus Giving Up Outcomes Expecting Not Giving Up

Author:Eric Maisel

“I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.”

People Should Important Economy Issues Focus Livelihood Important Issues

Author:Donald Tsang

“Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.”

Helping Attention Focus Lessons Overcoming Bitter Bitterness

Author:Edward Howard Griggs

“Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend to get what you focus on. Imagine a future where you shine, others thrive, and the light of hope shines brighter in the world. If you can see it, you can be it.”

Ifs World Way Want Use Light Hope Imagination Vision Focus Imagine Future Anxiety Shining Thrive Brighter

Author:Ian Lawton

“Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus”

Want Moments Focus Couple Breaths Prepared Calm Breathe Deep Breath

Book:Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss

Source: Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss

“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.”

Source: Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village

“You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.”

Trying Art Energy Term Focus Talent Creating

Author:Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

“The gap between current conditions and your future vision should be your focus”

Should Vision Focus Conditions Currents Gaps Our Future Your Future

Author:Tony Jeary

“I focus on things that are the highest value and do them perfectly.”

Values Focus Highest

Author:Sean Parker

“For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.”

Helping Values Easy Stuff Loses Results Acting Principles Focus Teaching Sight Help Me Principles And Values

Author:Mark Pellegrino

“The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?”

Knows Want Should Heart Doe Important Book Character Challenges Secret Focus Information Impact Revelations

Author:Peter Turchi

“To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.”

People Thinking Writing Focus Albums Selfish

Author:Gwen Stefani

“We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth and competition within the United States of America and compete internationally. I don't know anywhere where it's written that we have to be number two.”

Knows Two States America Nations Growth United Numbers United States Focus Written Politician Competition United States Of America

Author:Joe Biden

“The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows.”

People Whole Shows Bigs Film Focus Fans Industry Golden Buying Awards Translate Globes Tickets Academy Downloads Academy Awards Award Shows

Author:Liam Neeson

“If you focus too much on development of the visual angle, it could be a detriment to what you're doing musically.”

Ifs Too Much Focus Development Visuals Angle

Author:Grimes

“Flying radio-controlled airplanes [is my guiltiest pleasure]. Only God would give me a hobby where I'm looking up to the sky. It's the only time where I am able to focus and concentrate on nothing but looking up. It's a fascinating hobby.”

Giving Able Focus Sky Give Me Radio Flying Fascinating Controlled Airplane Hobbies Only Time

Author:Tyler Perry

“It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus. So for me, personally, I just like to concentrate on writing the best book I can, and if there's other stuff that goes along with it, that's awesome, as long as the story is central.”

Ifs Writing Long Stills I Can Book Stories Stuff Focus Anchors Good Story

Author:Rick Riordan

“I want to make the songs good. I think this is my main focus.”

Thinking Want Song Focus

Author:Ed Sheeran

“I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school...and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.”

Way School Night Girl Opportunity Hours Focus Wonderful Week Lucky Six Grades Graduates Really Great Homework Great Opportunity Nerdy Private School Seventh Grade Bookworms

Author:Sophia Bush

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