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“I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.”

Thinking Two Helping Used Language Focus Authority Approach Tradition Relation Islam Helpful Temporality

Author:Talal Asad

“I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.”

Language Focus Information Conveying

Author:Pat Mora

“I can spend the hour before the race cracking up with all my friends and joking around, but as soon as I get around that race car, I completely change. The focus changes. The competitive juices get flowing.”

I Can Hours Race Focus Car My Friends Juice Race Car Joking Around Cracking Up

Author:Denny Hamlin

“I see myself being 5 times hotter than I am now every year. I just focus on being hotter than the year before.”

Years Focus Hotter

Author:Slim Thug

“Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.”

Important Self Country Political Politics Term Deals Issues Focus Months Limits Members Finals Congress Retirement Important Issues Term Limits

Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“Do whatever you do intensely.”

Focus Enthusiasm

Author:Robert Henri

“The real magic in National Geographic isn't how much money they have left at the end of the year. It's the fact that through their overall focus they are reaching hundreds of millions of people and educating people about the world. It just happens to be done in a business-oriented kind of way that is more sustainable.”

People World Way Years Kind Real Ends Done Facts Happens Left Business Millions Focus Magic Reaching National Geographic

Author:Steve Case

“The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.”

Want Kids Father Focus Wife Husband My Family My Wife Good Father Good Husband

Author:Rex Hudler

“The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect with as babies. It is the focus of our attention in our relationships with each other. The face and the human figure express all we are. Everything else - architecture, art, even landscape - we usually understand in relation to us.”

Humans Art Two Faces Attention Brain Focus Figures Baby Relation Architecture Landscape Our Relationship Dots Human Faces

Author:Dave McKean

“I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!”

Thinking Knows Art Focus Martial Arts Improvisation Art And Music

Author:Hiromi

“I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.”

Littles Made Next Levels Focus Mystery Labor Made It Precision Artwork Next Level

Author:Jacob Hashimoto

“I think what I am always trying to do is make clothes for every girl to wear, to make things that you are going to accessorize from day to night. I am really trying to focus on casualwear - making your basic sweatpants cool, trendy, and funky.”

Thinking Trying Night Girl Focus Clothes Always Trying Every Girl Trendy Funky Sweatpants

Author:Whitney Port

“Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.”

People Ideas Action Focus Blood Come Up Intricacy

Author:Satoshi Tajiri

“I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Mind Stills Different Clear Focus Musician Singing Happenings Wander Drumming

Author:Brett Dennen

“In regards to being female, I don't really think about it in the same way that other people do. I prefer to focus on my job rather than my gender. I'm still amazed that people think it's a big deal.”

People Thinking Way Stills Bigs Jobs Deals Focus Female Regard Gender Amazed Big Deal

Author:Rhianna Pratchett

“Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is. There's also a strong focus on selectionism and the notion that religion plays a functional role in the evolutionary process. But religion is dysfunctional all the time, as well as functional. It's not so simple.”

Ifs Knows Years Wells Play Strong Process Simple Christianity Roles Focus Four Buddhism Hundred Universal Notion

Author:Robert Neelly Bellah

“My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life.”

Way Important Able Focus Important Things

Author:Max Bemis

“When I got hit I went from having 37-year-old eyes to having 65-year-old eyes. That's why I've got the glasses on - so my eye isn't constantly trying to focus and giving me headaches. But they also help me see better: my right eye is blurry.”

Giving Trying Years Helping Eye Focus Glasses Help Me Headache Blurry Old Eyes

Author:Chris Pronger

“You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.”

Author:Jazmin Carlin

“You've got to focus and understand that what you've done in training is the best that you could possibly do. Once you've done that you can really settle down and let your body take over.”

Done Body Focus Training Down And Your Body Settling Settling Down

Author:Liam Tancock

“You've got to be committed. It comes down to setting yourself goals as an individual. In rugby you have team goals that you strive for, but you also set yourself simple goals that are achievable. It helps to write them down so you understand what you need to do, and what your focus is. Put them on your wall, then each time you wake up, you'll see them. Then you can just tick them off once you've achieved them.”

Needs Writing Helping Individual Goal Simple Focus Team Wall Wake Up Strive Committed Setting Settings Rugby Tick Team Goal Your Wall

Author:Filo Tiatia

“Always have a plan B and C, because if it doesn't work out there are other things you can focus on. It's important to have a balance to your life, regardless of what you're doing. I've been playing at this level for a long time, but I've got interests outside of rugby, like my family and my children. They keep me sane.”

Ifs Children Long Important Interest Levels Focus Plans Balance Long Time My Family Work Out My Children Sane Rugby Plan B

Author:Filo Tiatia

“I believe the more prepared you are physically, the better prepared you are mentally and the more you can then cope. Mentally you have to focus on the job in hand 100%.”

Believe Hands Jobs I Believe Focus Prepared

Author:Liz Halliday

“In Britain I focus on my horse riding. I ride everyday no matter what. I have a wonderful trainer called Joe Meyer. He is from New Zealand and competed in the World Games this year. I have been with him for four years and we have a good rapport.”

World Years Has Beens Matter Games Focus Four Wonderful Horse No Matter What Everyday Britain Four Years Riding Trainers New Zealand Rapport Horse Riding

Author:Liz Halliday

“I'm still learning to be the best actor I can be, and I have a long way to go to get to the level I would like to be at. My focus is still 100% acting acting acting. Once I hit a point where I feel very comfortable as an actor - because you can never stop learning, I don't care how comfortable you get, you can never stop learning - but once I hit a point where I can get that comfort level of taking on the task of directing and having the confidence in myself to have people's respect when I give them direction, that's definitely something I want to do someday.”

“Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.”

Energy Focus My Time Time And Energy

Author:Tom Green

“The environment forces you to be utterly dependent between "action" and "cut" because the environment is perfect on your fellow actor. So as an acting exercise, it's absolutely thrilling that the focus that we had to bring to each other echoed in life, echoed in art. And when you get that parallel, it's really thrilling and it's full of surprises, but it all has a logic.”

Art Action Actors Force Perfect Acting Environment Focus Cutting Exercise Logic Fellows Surprise Dependent Parallels Thrilling

Author:Ben Kingsley

“First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so that the State delivers on the things it sets out to do.”

Needs Firsts States Government Focus Achieve India Governance Competence

Author:Narendra Modi

“Our focus should be on developmental dimensions of atomic science with a special outreach to India's youth.”

Should Focus Special Youth India Dimensions Governance Developmental Outreach

Author:Narendra Modi

“We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact.”

Should Levels Focus India Impact Outcomes Mechanism Ambitious Platforms Governance Tangible Brics

Author:Narendra Modi

“The need of the hour is to think big. The more we focus on skill, scale & speed, it will increase India's growth trajectory.”

Thinking Needs Bigs Motivation Growth Hours Focus Skills India Increase Speed Scales Think Big Trajectory

Author:Narendra Modi

“In a world suffering from mental stress, yoga promises calm. In a distracted world, yoga creates focus, creates concentration. In a world of fear, yoga promises strength and courage. A healthy body and a disciplined mind are the foundations of a world free from fear. In crafting a new self through Yoga, we create a new world.”

World Mind Self Body Suffering Focus Promise Healthy Yoga India Stress Foundation Calm Concentration New World Distracted Healthy Body World Suffering New Self

Author:Narendra Modi

“I want stuff to play as wide as possible. I want to be able to see... if I could play the whole thing in a master and it could be compelling enough, that'd be great. Then it simplifies my day, it simplifies life for the actors when you could just focus on that. But by the same token I don't want to be forced into coverage. So I want it to be as good from every angle and I need to get as many of the kind of shadings that I want from every angle.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Enough Play Whole Able Actors Stuff Focus Masters Wide If I Could Compelling Angle Simplify Coverage Tokens

Author:David Fincher

“We know there are a lot of good secondaries out there. We are just trying to focus on what we can do to get better. We've got some new, young guys coming in and we are trying to catch them up to speed. We are trying to make sure that we have depth, making sure the guys behind us know what is going on. We are going to keep pushing each other to raise the standard for our secondary.”

Knows Trying Young Guy Can Do Behinds Focus Standards Raises Depth Speed Get Better Pushing Young Guys Pushing Each Other

Author:Eric Berry

“I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on.”

Trying Done My Own Focus Worst Critics

Author:Mandy Moore

“I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our studio's area of focus. But I find that the creatives behind any kind of animation are typically very similar, and so regardless of what aesthetic they use to realize their vision, I'm usually pretty into it.”

Kind Use Realizing Behinds Vision Focus Areas Studios Storytelling Traditional Mediums Aesthetic Animation

Author:Seth Green

“Quite often on a movie like Total Recall you have this training period of two or three months where, like on the first 'Underworld' I was doing gymnastics and trampolining and all this stuff which I don't do in the movie necessarily, but mentally it helps. You come home and you go: 'Well, I've done all that. I must be an action star now!' So it helps you focus a little bit and gets you fit.”

Firsts Wells Littles Two Done Helping Home Action Three Stars Stuff Bits Focus Months Periods Fit Little Bit Training Coming Home Recalls Gymnastics Three Months Underworld Total Recall

Author:Colin Farrell

“I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for that. It's a different focus.”

Kind Different Character Focus Violence Journey Fans

Author:Toni Collette

“Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You have to let it rise from you naturally. Same thing in golf. You have to have a plan and a focus; but then you need to just let it happen and enjoy the smooth movement of the swing.”

Needs Happens Enjoy Acting Emotion Focus Plans Movement Golf Concentration Swings Smooth Relaxation

Author:Jane Seymour

“Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.”

Mean Problem Hands Able Focus Confidence Golf Interference

Author:Tom Watson

“Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.”

Source: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

“What are you thinking about? What you focus on right now will tend to come into your life a little later. Here's your reminder to change your mind.”

Thinking Inspirational Mind Littles Inspiration Focus Right Now Law Of Attraction Reminders Self Transformation Changing Your Mind Thoughts Become Things

Author:Joe Vitale

“In any walk of life, a positive, upbeat outlook trumps any adversarial act. Revenge is counterproductive. Unproductive emotions limit one's ability to move forward, to focus, to think positively, to act creatively.”

Thinking Moving Ability Walks Emotion Kindness Focus Trump Limits Revenge Moving Forward Outlook Positively Walks Of Life Counterproductive Upbeat Think Positively Unproductive

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society - one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.”

“No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.”

Way Hard Eye Focus Impossible Balls Smell Bats Leather

Author:Ted Williams

“Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?”

Time Focus Priorities Objectives Time Management

Book:Further Up the Organization

Source: Further Up the Organization

“Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.”

Looks Problem Lost Focus Grass Look Up Sheep Nibbling

Book:The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff

Source: The Healing Power of Humor: Techniques for Getting Through Loss, Setbacks, Upsets, Disappointments, Difficulties, Trials, Tribulations, and All that Not-so-funny Stuff

“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.”

People Heart Ideas Helping Issues Focus Listening Conflict Solutions Winner Workplace Respect Each Other

Author:Gary Chapman

“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.”

Life Winning Focus Inspire Chess Forethought

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.”

World Real Sides Focus Tree Thousand Twenties Busy Dinner Marketplace Dip Real Success Woodpeckers

Author:Seth