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“There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad."”

Made Focus Critics Tendencies

Author:George Lucas

“Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.”

World Trying Looks Individual Focus Style Lessons Approach Concepts Buying

Author:Lauryn Hill

“Women tend to vote the economic interests of their families and to speak out on family economic issues. For men, there's often much more focus on the idea of personal failure: "If I'm not winning this great economic game, it must be my fault."”

Ifs Men Ideas Games Winning Speak Interest Issues Focus Economic Vote Faults Speaks Out Economic Issues Personal Failure

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on.”

Way Trying Eye Moving Guy Energy Focus Waste Forgiving Legs Spending Horrible Productive

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“I get to focus on something I love to do 24-hours a day rather than trying to squeeze it in between midterms, or even during my normal workday. When I was at Google it was like you wake up at 7 and then you get home by 7 and you start your second job of music. So now I get to focus all my efforts on music, travel and play shows and do all of this stuff. That's the difference - That's all my life is, all day.”

Trying Play Shows Home Jobs Life Is Stuff Hours Differences Effort Focus Like You Normal Wake Up Google Midterms

Author:Hoodie Allen

“I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus.”

Focus Music Is Studios Love Making

Author:Juicy J

“No one is going to give it to you. Spend everyday getting better and focus on that which you can control, let everything else fall into place. You can't stay focused on what you can get from success, but rather focus on becoming successful!”

Giving Fall Successful Focus Becoming Everyday Focused Get Better Stay Focused Becoming Successful Fall Into Place

Author:Rob Dyrdek

“Our dreams can teach us, instruct us, confuse us... sometimes I think they look to be considered. And in terms of like, they are an opportunity and I think they most certainly could be utilized to focus, to try and achieve - whether it's looking for someone, or influencing us, or inspiring us.”

Thinking Trying Looks Sometimes Dream Opportunity Term Teach Focus Influence Achieve Our Dreams

Author:Keanu Reeves

“If you are gonna live your life, just try to not be crazy, have fun but have some focus and some purpose and try to know what that is. If you don't know now, try to figure it out.”

Ifs Knows Trying Purpose Fun Focus Crazy Figures Having Fun Live Your Life Being Crazy

Author:Joan Jett

“To reach the highest level you have to not just have a dream and focus but you also have to make sure you are writing great songs, and if you feel they're what you want to represent you, that is key. But getting out on the road is key. And get your music out there. Maybe something catches, maybe it gets picked up and used on television, you just never know.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Writing Dream Used Song Levels Focus Television Keys Highest What You Want

Author:Joan Jett

“I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.”

Stuff Pay Attention Focus Messages Draws Hundred Pay Attention Boards Affected Comment Negativity Wrecks

Author:Joan Jett

“I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you.”

Thinking Sometimes Eye Winning Loses Focus Serious Lazy Right Time Win Win

Author:Usain Bolt

“It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.”

Want Pay Attention Focus Areas Size Pay Attention Designer

Author:Tim Gunn

“What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.”

People World Want War Lasts Focus Groups Particular Stress Crisis Response Rewards Determined Minorities Camps Syria Torn Persecuted Smuggling

Author:Tony Abbott

“I'm happy with what I'm doing. I try not to focus on how I've changed. I just try to focus on what I'm doing now.”

Trying Focus Changed I've Changed

Author:Bo Burnham

“Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop.”

Ifs Focus Cop Drumming

Author:Eric Hernandez

“When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.”

Trying Eye Space Vision Focus Fields Scene Photography Depth Extremes Perceive Replicate Eyesight Depth Of Field

Author:Keith Carter

“People see only my actions. Instead, if I focus on Christ with thanksgiving, people see Him.”

People Ifs Action Christ Focus

Author:Francis Chan

“I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.”

People World Focus Criticism Praise Criticize

Author:Alice Walker

“Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.”

Focus Weakness

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“I am firmly convinced that you shouldn't necessarily emphasize hedonism, especially at the beginning of a career, but should instead focus entirely on performance.”

Should Careers Focus Performances Convinced Hedonism

Author:Oliver Kahn

“If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.”

Ifs I Can Different Hours Loses Focus Painting Tired Paint Pushing Sensitivity

Author:Gary Panter

“We use similar products. Our focus industry is healthcare and hospitality. But we haven?t done anything interactive. The first day full of seminars is full of things I thought would be useful: quick service restaurant and mobile phone applications. Businesses are providing more services and products by self-service means.”

“He does have that weird mixture of born again Christian and stupid that some people mistake for courage and focus.”

People Doe Humor Christian Funny Born Mistake Focus Stupid Mixtures Born Again

Author:Marc Maron

“The men who are the most attractive and well-adjusted people I know absolutely love women, and understand how to focus on what she needs, rather than on what he can get. Basically, men need to love women more.”

People Knows Men Needs Wells Focus He Man Attractive

Author:Matthew Hussey

“Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary.”

Book Reading Focus Minutes Walking Vocabulary Toilets Memorizing English Words

Author:Li Cunxin

“Train hard, get good coaching and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting and focus on multiple disciplines.”

Art Hard Fighting Forget Focus Style Discipline Train Coaching Martial Arts Tied Multiple Train Hard Mixed Martial Arts Good Coaching

Author:Chuck Liddell

“So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.”

People Ifs Want Hard Culture Pay Attention Focus Hard Work Details Customers Pay Attention Do It Yourself Frugal Attention To Detail

Author:Sam Altman

“A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.”

Different Enough Focus Communication Different Things Breakdown

Author:Sam Altman

“Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.”

Growth Focus Maintaining Momentum

Author:Sam Altman

“The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.”

Levels Focus Pieces Intense Intensity Execution

Author:Sam Altman

“It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.”

People Needs Difficult Levels Successful Focus Groups Extremes Productivity Being Successful Large Groups

Author:Sam Altman

“Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.”

Way Focus Losing Track Founders Another Way Losing Focus

Author:Sam Altman

“The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.”

Can Do Focus Happened One Thing Stress Management

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Value the quality of your articles over the number of articles you write. I know a lot of bloggers focus on writing as many articles as possible, but I've realized over the years that you cannot sacrifice quality if you wish to build a loyal following on your blog.”

Ifs Knows Writing Years Values Wish Numbers Quality Focus Sacrifice Following Articles Loyal Blogs Bloggers

Author:Jeet Banerjee

“I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.”

World Able Purpose Greater Focus Determination Accomplish Great Things Life Changing Changing The World Get Back Distraction Better Life

Author:Jeet Banerjee

“Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.”

Important Focus Mountain Staying Climbing

Author:Arlene Blum

“Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Self Focus Victim Forgiving Self Forgiveness Forgiving Others

Author:Liane Holliday Willey

“Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist.”

Way Persons Ideas Feelings Reality Individual Left Understanding Race Focus Conditions Theory Offers Racism Intention Critical Discrimination Racist Framework Bad Ideas Biased

Author:Dean Spade

“Law reforms in the US, ostensibly enacted to prohibit racism, have proven ineffective because they focus on bad intentions of individuals and fail to comprehend population-level conditions.”

Law Individual Levels Focus Failing Conditions Racism Intention Population Reform Proven Bad Intentions

Author:Dean Spade

“I am arguing that it is a mistake for trans activists to focus our resources and attention on winning inclusion in legal equality frameworks, such as anti-discrimination laws and hate crimes laws, that will not provide relief from the life-shortening conditions trans populations are facing. Winning legal equality - getting the law to cast us as victims of discrimination who the state will protect - will not support our survival.”

“I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.”

Important Courses Language Focus Property Musical Sentences Prose Essays Cadence Compression

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.”

Long Helping Focus Metaphor Invites

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team.”

Important Records Focus Team Cost Important Things

Author:Garfield Sobers

“You can't be positive to everybody. A lot of people want to focus on flaws and negativity, especially on the Internet because that's their only voice. I don't pay attention to that kind of stuff. I pay attention to opportunities coming my way, gays and lesbians telling me what I've done for them, organizations in my community that always want to work with me.”

People Way Want Kind Done Opportunity Stuff Voice Community Pay Attention Focus Internet Gay Organization My Way Pay Attention Flaws Negativity Being Positive

Author:Jackie Warner

“I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.”

“Too many players focus on physical tells. For both online and live games, you should be focusing more on betting patterns and histories. The ability to figure out your opponent's hand based on his betting pattern is a crucial skill.”

Should Hands Games Ability Focus Player Figures Skills Patterns Opponents Online Crucial Betting

Author:Daniel Negreanu

“I think we have to really focus on the issues much more than we may have in the past. I think we have to seek to create coalitional strategies that go beyond racial lines. We need to bring black communities, Chicano communities, Puerto Rican communities, Asian American communities together.”

Thinking Needs May Together Past Black Community Lines Issues Focus Strategy Asian Asian American Black Community

Author:Angela Davis

“I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.”

Thinking Way Important Focus

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“Focus on what you're doing. Focus on the phases in front of them. Do everything you can to get the best at that phase and get ready to take the next step when it happens.”

Happens Next Steps Focus Fronts Ready Phases Next Steps

Author:Donovin Darius

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