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“I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it.”

Thinking Knows Way Done Turns Know How Focus Protect Private Life Positive Things Glare

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“In terms of what people see of me, I have become this girl who just loves to be photographed, doesn't know how to focus, doesn't know how to work on set, just loves the attention, knows how to go out at night, knows how to party.”

People Knows Night Girl Term Party Attention Know How Focus This Girl

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.”

Years Firsts Made Two Film Found Five Focus Happened Program Chosen Winner Features Paris Short Films Residency

Author:Chika Anadu

“As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.”

“I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.”

Made Mistake Focus Behavior Achievement Deeds Dialogue Good Deeds My Mistakes Explicit Bad Behavior

Author:Leslye Headland

“I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.”

Thinking Giving Energy Attention Focus Materials Majors Material Things

Author:Sam Keen

“I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further from my other creative selves. I used to be able to see myself doing many things and sometimes I still long for a job that involves less pressure and grappling with people but, as you say, I am one of the lucky ones so I try to just focus on feeling lucky and carry on!”

People Way Feels Trying Years Long Stills Self Sometimes Feelings Able Jobs Used Creativity Creative Focus Exercise Lucky Pressure Used To Be Specialization Grappling

Author:Ani DiFranco

“You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.”

Action Term Issues Focus Activity Management Manage

Author:David Allen

“Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.”

People Kind Moving Focus Performances Crisis

Author:David Allen

“The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.”

Problem Body Focus Stupid Crisis Your Body Clever Crash Intuitive Pumps Very Clever Very Stupid

Author:David Allen

“In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.”

Ifs World Needs Certain Values Given Goal Half Focus Our Lives Amount Quiet Okay Western Just Being Western World Being Quiet

Author:Shakti Gawain

“When you start to write, things begin to come into focus in a way they don't when you're not writing. It's a very good way to find out how much you don't know because you learn specifically what you need to know that you don't know at the moment by writing.”

Knows Way Needs Writing Moments Focus Very Good Good Way

Author:David McCullough

“If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.”

Ifs Mind I Can Names Rooms Focus Doors Quiet Messages Cat Connecting Yelling

Author:Bernie Siegel

“I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.”

Important Different Consciousness Principles Focus Authenticity Sincerity Subconscious Essays Selection Unifying Guiding Principles

Author:Alan Lightman

“Music is the art of all the invisible things that are real. Art, emotion, spiritual essence, consciousness - these things are hard to prove. Music helps you to focus on your sound. We understand that for very young kids.”

Art Real Hard Helping Kids Spiritual Young Sound Emotion Consciousness Focus Prove Music Is Essence Invisible Invisible Things

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“When I was banned for nine months I had an opportunity to focus on something else and I needed to focus on something else. It's who I am. I admire Miles Davis and Chet Baker a lot and I like this instrument, so I tried and I learned and practised for two months. But I stopped after that.”

Two Opportunity Focus Months Needed Instruments Miles Nine Who I Am Admire Banned Two Months Bakers Nine Months Chet Baker

Author:Eric Cantona

“You can see with the proliferation of magazines, you know, that just focus entirely on that. So it just - it seems like there (was) a lot of fodder and a lot of stories and fun things to poke fun at and highlight.”

Knows Stories Seems Fun Focus Magazines Highlights Poke Proliferation Fun Things Fodder

Author:Debra Messing

“The key to having everything we want lies in expanding our definition of what's possible and focusing on what we want. That's it! Once we believe in the possibility of anything and focus in on exactly what we want to have, exactly what we want to do, then our minds can take us there.”

Want Mind Believe Lying Focus Possibility Keys Definitions Expanding

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“Focus on the princess, not on the problem. You can't marry the princess without killing the dragon. So when you see the dragon, just remember: There's a princess on the other side.”

Problem Remember Sides Focus Killing Dragons Princess

Author:Doug Wead

“Obstacles are only in your view when you don't have a clear enough focus on your goal.”

Enough Goal Views Clear Focus Obstacles

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.”

Ifs World Dream Eye Poverty Focus Prosperity Your Dreams

Author:Robert G. Allen

“I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.”

Winning Lost Focus Minutes Keys Battle Campaigns

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.”

Ifs Heart Hard Destiny Path Clear Focus Feet Balance Highest

Author:Melody Beattie

“It's a good time to say "Oh" and take stock and say, "Gee, how was I ethically this year?" That's the problem with faith, Joe. What it does is it kind of screws up your priorities. Your priorities shouldn't be saving your own ass, which is the focus of Christianity. The focus should be, I'm a good person, and I do that just for the sake of being good. Like the Christmas song says, "Be good for goodness' sake."”

Should Years Kind Persons Doe Problem Song Christianity Focus Goodness Sake Be Good Priorities Ass Saving Good Times Screws Good Person Screw Ups Christmas Song

Author:Bill Maher

“Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.”

Ifs Looks Focus Willing

Author:Marvin Minsky

“The best way for business to move out of the Hall of Shame is to demonstrate a commitment to social causes. This also makes business sense. A focus on solving social problems has motivational benefits in lean economic times.”

Way Problem Moving Social Causes Focus Economic Benefits Commitment Shame Best Way Halls Social Problems Business Sense

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.”

Needs Giving Spiritual Force Challenges Support Focus Succeed Determination Give Me Perseverance Deep Within Dig Deep Determination Perseverance Physical Force

Author:Gail Devers

“Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.”

Ifs Two Focus Minutes Breaths Valuable Breathing

Book:Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice

Source: Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice

“The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.”

Littles Focus Threat Debt These Days Mike

Author:Mark Sanford

“Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.”

Situation Worry Focus Happened Information Gains Great Men Catastrophe Proactive

Author:Mark Twain

“When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.”

Mind Heart Focus Visible Unseen Heart And Mind

Author:Ann Voskamp

“The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to his taking office, because of the focus on Iraq, and the U.S. efforts there, that the original war, if you will, in Afghanistan had been neglected, the strategy there was unclear, and that it was not properly resourced.”

Ifs Made War President Effort Clear Focus Office Originals Strategy Iraq Candidates Afghanistan Neglected Unclear

Author:Jay Carney

“Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.”

Thinking Happens Focus Negative Positive Things

Author:Michelle Kwan

“What you do with your eyes in some cases is a matter of life and death. To look at focus on the sickness brings death. To look at focus on God's Word brings life.”

Looks Matter Eye Cases Focus Sickness Life And Death Focus On God

Author:Gloria Copeland

“Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion of civic militarism seems bothersome, and in which free speech is used to focus on our own imperfections without concern for the ghastly nature of our enemies.”

Ifs Whole Seems Used Enemy Focus Materials Periods Speech Concern Institutions Notion Eras Imperfection Free Speech Civics Decadence Militarism Ghastly Erode

Author:Victor Davis Hanson

“Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.”

People Want Trying Kind Games Focus All Kinds Day To Day Ipods

Author:Troy Polamalu

“I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.”

Looks Mean Stills Song Focus Band Degrees

Author:Ian MacKaye

“The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on.”

People Trying America Party Focus Protect Tools Touchstones

Author:George W. Bush

“You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so therefore he's terrible. But in my imagination, the 23 hours of the day that we don't experience, he's very hard at work. He's quite an effective and successful president - in my narcissistic imagination.”

Hard Jobs President Hours Imagination Successful Focus Terrible My Imagination Private Life Narcissistic

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“If you're in a popular TV show, you can attract attention, and I like to help focus that on stories that deserve to be told - which is what politicians do. But I would lose my autonomy, and to get things done I would have to compromise and get into the weeds of policy. I don't know if I'm smart enough.”

Ifs Knows Done Enough Helping Stories Shows Loses Attention Focus Policy Tvs Politician Smart Deserve Compromise Weed Tv Shows Autonomy Things Done

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.”

Humans Body Order Human Beings Issues Focus Gender Setting Settings Narrative Indispensable Symmetry Highlighting

Author:Alante Kavaite

“It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.”

Important President Ability Powerful Behinds Watches Clear Focus Speech Weight Climate Climate Change Command Remarkable Rhetoric Bully Pulpit

Author:Josh Fox

“When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.”

People Natural Millions Focus Doors Industry Needed Gas Knocking Natural Gas

Author:Josh Fox

“What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the consultants to do the focus groups to figure out the 30-second answers to be memorized by the candidate. This is stunningly dangerous.”

World Jobs Answers Focus Groups Dangerous Figures This World Raises Candidates Consultants Focus Groups

Author:Newt Gingrich

“The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.”

Children Next Parent Challenges Steps Roles Focus Teacher Generations Taught Higher Succeed Arise Mentor Preparing Great Teacher Next Steps

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.”

Should Art Film Focus

Author:Winona Ryder

“Success is doing what you said you would do, consistantly, with clarity, focus, ease and grace.”

Said Focus Grace Clarity Ease

Author:Maria Nemeth

“You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.”

Want Focus Figures Maps

Author:Steve Jobs

“Writing in a journal each day, with a structured, strategic process allows you to direct your focus to what you did accomplish, what you're grateful for, and what you're committed to doing better tomorrow. Thus, you more deeply enjoy your journey each day, feel good about any forward progress you made, and use a heightened level of clarity to accelerate your results.”

“We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.”

Wells Important Accepting Focus Minutes What's Important

Author:Eric Barker

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