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“I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But, that's good too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.”

Lines Focus Seeing Involved Mark Following Concentration Hitting

Author:Stephen Lang

“The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Comedians are - at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of people that lack a little bit of - we're very insecure, and we want to be loved and liked by everybody. And you know, I could check my Twitter and there could be 150 people that say wonderful things. There'll be one person who says something negative. And all we focus on is that negative.”

People Knows Want Littles Persons Ends Bits Focus Wonderful Little Bit Negative Checks Bunch Comedian The End Of The Day Insecure Wonderful Things

Author:Russell Peters

“Put one foot in front of the other, focus on the little goal right in front of you, and almost anything is possible.”

Littles Goal Focus Feet Fronts Anything Is Possible

Book:Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life

Source: Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life

“Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.”

Reason Helping Law Focus Drug Program Pressure Workers Criminals Terrorist Agents Borders Officials Temporary Law Enforcement Enforcement Dealer Wrong Reasons Drug Dealers Border Patrol

Author:Scott McClellan

“People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.”

People Wells Jobs Opportunity Focus Creating Expectations Customers Titles Maps Something New Specialization Job Titles

Author:Gabe Newell

“Each of us lives in multi-dimensions. We can choose where to focus our attention, and wherever that focus goes, a new reality opens up. When I speak of other dimensions, I'm referring to domains of consciousness.”

Reality Speak Attention Consciousness Focus Dimensions Domain Referring

Book:The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?

Source: The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?

“We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.”

People Thinking Want May Littles Done Past Success Winning Bits Lines Focus Little Bit Bottom Championship Yankees Bottom Line New York Yankees Yankee Stadium

Author:Derek Jeter

“If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.”

Ifs Reason Order Imagination Focus Deeper Irrational Retreat Lenses Worldview Grasping

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“The true believer is not someone who disengages from this world in order to focus on heaven, but rather the one who tries to make this world more like heaven.”

World Trying Order Heaven Focus This World Believer True Believer

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“Remember, what you focus on expands; results follow focus.”

Remember Results Focus

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.”

People Ifs Years Persons Ideas Different Whole Used Gone Focus Special Illusion Years Ago Screens Glamorous

Author:Andy Warhol

“I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.”

Way Persons Hard Artist Next Worry Focus Hard Work Negative Tables Dinner Wrong Way Dinner Table

Author:Meek Mill

“Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.”

Common Successful Focus Organization Customers Successful Organizations

Author:Ken Blanchard

“When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.”

“Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.”

Ends Focus Innovation Impact Customers Perceive Users Innovators

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.”

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Author:Jordan Spieth

“Democrats' desperate attempt to focus on campaign finance reform instead of laws that may have been broken by the Clinton-Gore campaign is like Mike Tyson demanding a reform in boxing regulations after biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear.”

May Has Beens Law Focus Pieces Broken Ears Clinton Democrat Campaigns Finance Reform Boxing Desperate Regulation Mike Gore Biting Tyson Campaign Finance Like Mike Campaign Finance Reform

Author:Cal Thomas

“I kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result.”

Care Process Results Focus Don't Care

Author:Rory McIlroy

“What you believe and focus on becomes your reality.”

Believe Reality Focus

Author:Michael McMillian

“I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person.”

Ifs Mean Persons Doe Whole School Games Acting Focus Approach Theater

Author:Mackenzie Davis

“Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.”

Want Different Fun Focus Band Different Things Toes

Author:Matana Roberts

“I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.”

People World Should Book Understanding White Focus Universal Painter Primaries Usa

Author:Justine Larbalestier

“I was wowed by Margo Jefferson's memoir, Negroland, which is about growing up black and privileged in Chicago in the fifties and sixties. It was a window into an alien world. Obviously, I'm not black, but what was really alien to me was her family's focus on respectability. I was never taught when to wear white gloves, what length skirt is appropriate.”

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Author:Justine Larbalestier

“I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very rarely listen to my music or even read things that I might've said.”

Looks Said Reason Might Attention Focus Video Uncomfortable

Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant

“There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.”

Novel Focus Childhood

Author:Paul Auster

“I realise I'll have to acquire the ability to speak to my audience in between numbers. I've never had to do that. On the street I only focus on the keyboard settings for my next song, which takes a bit of time and a lot of concentration. So I'll have to develop that new skill, which gives me pause, because I'm afraid I'll say something stupid and disillusion people when they realise I'm an ordinary earthling - in fact, as ordinary as anyone else on this planet.”

“Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.”

People Should Kind Focus Guitar Evening Devices Pedals Primacy Synthesizers

Author:Tim Hecker

“It's easy to focus on the differences, harder to find the similarities in people.”

People Easy Differences Focus Harder Similarity

Author:Chali 2na

“The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."”

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Author:Joseph Boyden

“In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile.”

Writing Trying Stories America Passion Focus Written Concepts Crafts Introducing Hierarchy Good Story

Author:Etgar Keret

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

“The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.”

“You don't see a positive culture, stability among teachers, or leadership. We don't focus enough in our policies on creating conditions to educating kids with the greatest needs. There is no state that does that.”

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Author:Pedro Noguera

“We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.”

Ifs Needs Children Kids School Education Learning Focus Organized Engagement Expecting Engaging Adjustment Nurturing Children Learning Love Of Learning Joy Of Learning

Author:Pedro Noguera

“Addicts have incredible energy, it's just all directed toward one goal. But what incredible luck and grace addicts have. You hear about it all the time, getting into some kind of crazy situation in order to get drugs or to get money for drugs, pulling off something where they fall from a building and land on a truck full of pillows. It's incredible will, and if you learn to focus that will on getting better instead of getting worse it's amazing what you can do with that. You can use that strength and resourcefulness for something real instead of scoring dope in a desert.”

“Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.”

“Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself.”

Moments Body Running Brain Teach Focus Yoga Destroying Joints Get Ahead Overdrive

Author:Julia Stiles

“A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.”

Ifs Jobs Night Hours Sleep Half Focus Deserve Fascinating Deprived Good Night Bedtime Half Hours Sleep Deprived

Author:Marty Nemko

“I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity.”

Thinking Want Culture Creativity Focus Inspire Built Aspect Simplicity Constraints Inspire Creativity

Author:Biz Stone

“I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.”

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Author:Biz Stone

“I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.”

People Want Song Realizing Differences Compassion Focus Heard Treats

Author:Joshua Radin

“I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.”

Thinking Way Different Focus Rocks Different Ways Luggage Recycled

Author:David Bowie

“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.”

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Author:Jon Rubin

“I think people felt like they did everything they had been told they should do to fix the problem, and it still wasn't fixed. Then you have these other parts of Sudan, [which] in actual fact have been left on the back burner for way too long, so there was this scramble, probably a year ago now, to focus on the fact that this peace agreement was basically falling apart.”

People Thinking Way Should Years Long Has Beens Stills Facts Problem Fall Left Felt Focus Years Ago Fixed Agreement Falling Apart Sudan Back Burner

Author:Rebecca Hamilton

“Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.”

Trying War Seems Nations Focus Students Threat Currents Topics

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].”

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Author:Michael Hastings

“That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.”

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Author:Matthew Zapruder

“If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.”

Ifs Knows Wells May Watches Focus Video Documentaries Youtube

Author:David Oyelowo

“There's this moment sometimes, when you do a crossword puzzle and you have the one really long word. And once you get that, the whole thing kind of comes into focus. Sometimes it's just working things over in your mind and then finding that one line that kind of ties the song together, and now it works. It's a puzzle of sorts.”

Mind Kind Long Sometimes Whole Moments Together Song Lines Focus Findings Ties Working It Puzzles One Line Really Long Crosswords Long Words Working Things

Author:Craig Finn

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