“I also use that centering process I mentioned as a way to focus my mind and connect it to my physical body. I feel that when we are aware of our physical bodies, we become more aware of how we exist on the earth and more considerate of others with whom we share the earth.” WayFeelsMindUseBodyEarthProcessFocusSharePhysical BodyConsiderateCentering Author:Amanda Schull
“In order to handle emotional pain I cry. I vent. I zone out in front of the TV to escape. Then, after I allow myself to feel it and be human, I try my best to put things in perspective and start moving forward again. I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.” FeelsTryingHumansReasonHappensPainPastRememberMovingOrderBeliefStruggleFocusFrontsCryEmotionalTvsPerspectiveBlessingThings HappenHandleMoving ForwardZoneMy PastEmotional PainEverything Happens For A ReasonHappens For A ReasonMy Blessing Author:Trista Sutter
“I feel like people focus too much on what other people think of their lives and trying to appear like they have it all together rather than focusing on just being happy. You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health. Genuine happiness is hard to miss.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingMatterHardTogetherGrowthToo MuchFocusMissingPerceptionPersonal GrowthGenuineJust BeingGenuine HappinessPerception Of Others Author:Melanie Iglesias
“Talking to someone, meditating, praying, or just plain crying it out helps. The most important thing after doing any of these things is to let them go. I focus on all of the many blessings surrounding me and all those I love, instead.” ImportantHelpingTalkingFocusCryPrayingBlessingImportant ThingsMeditatingMany BlessingsTalking To Someone Author:Betsy Landin
“I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.” ThinkingFocusDiseaseCancer Author:Laurie Glimcher
“But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are more prone to being really technically proficient or visual. I feel like there are two schools of both, and a director needs to have both.” NeedsFeelsKindTwoDifferentSchoolFocusDirectorsPerformancesVisualsBeing RealDifferent Kinds Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“There are a lot of actors who are doing dream work where they focus on a role and try to bring it into their dreams. I haven't done that work, but I've always found that when I'm studying for a role, the work I'm doing somehow manages to enter my dreams, no matter what approach I take.” TryingMatterDoneDreamActorsFoundRolesStudyFocusHavensApproachNo Matter WhatManage Author:Luke Kirby
“I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.” PeopleBelieveStuffFocusNotesBreathing Author:Jazmine Sullivan
“Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the possibility of acquiring skills that improve your focus.” PeopleBrainDoubtFocusPossibilitySkillsConversationElementsChaosNo DoubtWiring Author:Carolyn Hax
“Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.” NeedsMeanPersonsLongDifficultSpaceFocusCamerasDistanceLenses Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.” NeedsHas BeensHardThreeFocusImpossibleFeetModernCarCamerasLensesNon Stop Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“Movies come together and they fall apart. We try to focus on things we love to see. It is, they come together, they fall apart and they come together again and you're with them for a long long time.” TryingLongTogetherFallFocusLong TimeFalling ApartTogether Again Author:Chris Henchy
“I want Christians to consider who they vote for. We look a lot at the presidential elections. And that's where so much of our focus is, especially from the media, but some of the most important elections are the local elections - the mayors, city council members, county commissioners, school boards. How important school boards are - and we need to get Christian men and women running for office. We need Christian men and women not only running for office, but voting and getting behind other Christians that are running for office.” MenWantNeedsLooksImportantRunningSchoolChristianCitiesBehindsFocusMediaMembersOfficeMen And WomenVoteElectionLocalsPresidentialBoardsVotingCouncilCountyMayorsPresidential ElectionCommissionersRunning For OfficeSchool BoardCity Council Author:Franklin Graham
“I do think we lost some of the focus on the attacks in San Bernardino and focused on a plan that isn't really a plan and is never going to happen.” ThinkingHappensLostFocusPlansFocused Author:Marco Rubio
“In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindMatterActorsCasesFocusWorstReturnDrugTaxesInstanceRoutineEnforcementGangDealerIrsDrug DealersTax Returns Author:Mark Krikorian
“Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.” ThinkingGivingShouldStillsAbleYoungGuyWinningChanceFocusPositionFootballBiggerGive MeCoachesGet AwayLowestMaintainingGreat FootballYoung GuysGive Me A Chance Author:Brandon Spikes
“Since I'm not focusing on my speed as much now as I was heading into the combine, I'm really focusing on my position work, trying to perfect how I play the safety position. I've been doing a lot of backpedaling and drills that focus on turning my hips, which help me out on the football field.” TryingPlayHelpingPerfectFocusFieldsPositionFootballSafetySpeedHipsHelp MeHeadingsDrillsFootball Field Author:Calvin Pryor
“I was 18, and I either wanted to go to university in the States, and experience it like how it is in the movies - you know, date a cheerleader, be the coolest guy on campus - or I wanted to take a year and focus on what I wanted to do. I got into all the universities I applied to, but I took a year off anyway and said, let's see what happens.” KnowsYearsSaidStatesHappensWantedGuyFocusUniversityCampusCheerleader Author:Tinie Tempah
“Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.” ImportantEyeFormTurnsFocusPolicyResourcesSpeciesDisasterDay To DayPreparingPublic PolicyImportant QuestionsShort SightedTriage Author:Sheri Fink
“If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.” IfsThinkingBookStuffStudyFocusInformationSucceedKnowledge Is Power Author:Richard Sherman
“Playing for England was a massive honour and when I was in the team, that was all I wanted to focus on.” WantedFocusTeamEnglandMassiveHonour Author:Mike Tindall
“Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind.” PeopleMindSelfLevelsFocusAwarenessTrainExtraordinaryManifest Author:Wayne Dyer
“You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.” NeedsFocusSceneShapesLetting GoIntentionDarling Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.” ThinkingKnowsStillsI CanDoneAbleJobsFocusGraceGrace Of GodBuckles Author:Ginuwine
“In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die.” ThinkingRealityDiesTermMy OwnFocusOur LivesOne DayArgumentImportanceRelationRegardImpactUrgentHeidegger Author:George Pattison
“Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's a paradox here! Kierkegaard's own indirect communication proposes that we start with the experience of those who don't believe and meet them on their own ground. His success in doing this is evidenced by the fact that, at least for some periods of the 20th century, aspects of his work became a major focus for radical thinkers of various kinds, including the non-religious and, interestingly, a significant number of Jewish thinkers (Buber, Rosenzweig, Taubes, and others).” BelieveKindFactsReligiousNumbersFocusCenturyCommunicationPeriodsMajorsAspectDon't BelieveIncludingVariousSignificantRadicalParadoxThinker20th CenturyProposeIndirectSignificant NumbersNon Religious Author:George Pattison
“We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.” WantBigsAttentionFocusOur LivesMissingLifetimeContemplatingHunk Author:Wayne Dyer
“For pleasure, I'll read military sf, or Elmore Leonard capers, anything that's fast and fun. Otherwise, I mostly pick at books, without any clear focus.” BookFunPleasureClearFocusMilitaryPicksCapers Author:Paolo Bacigalupi
“What we want is stability and security so we can focus on our own development. But we have these problems in our region, and nobody has been able to resolve them. The whole world was saying that the countries of the regions should step up and resolve their problems, so we stepped up.” WorldWantShouldHas BeensCountryWholeProblemAbleStepsFocusSecurityDevelopmentWhole WorldRegionsResolveStabilityStep Up Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“So the difference between most books about love and Love For No Reason is that traditional love books focus on love as a stream of energy between two people, whereas this book focuses on love as a deep state of being that you can live in no matter what's going on in your life.” PeopleTwoBookMatterStatesReasonEnergyDifferencesFocusAnd LoveNo Matter WhatTraditionalStreamsNo Reason Author:Marci Shimoff
“When we learn to focus on love, grace, and gratitude, life is really quite lovely.” Life IsFocusGraceGratitudeLovely Author:Isha Judd
“The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history."” Has BeensInterestingStudyFocusMediaBetrayedParadigmMantrasEmergenceParadigm ShiftMedia Studies Author:Paul Fry
“I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.” AbleFilmActorsFocus Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.” NeedsArtActorsSpeakVoiceFocusMovementExpressionArt IsEtcAnimationFacialFacial ExpressionVoice Over Author:Atticus Shaffer
“I really just try to focus every day on delivering the most honest portrayal I can and let everything else take care of itself.” TryingI CanCareFocusHonestTake CareDeliveringPortrayal Author:Sherri Saum
“I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on.” ReasonRunningRecordsFocusTrumpPraiseSubstanceReason WhyVotingLiarsScreamInconsistentMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.” MomentsStoriesRememberPurposeStuffFocusHappeningsSupremeBunchThat Moment Author:Taron Egerton
“As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWayWantTryingYearsFirstsLooksMomentsFeelingsYoungWinningFocusLove YouFameAlbumsCreditAccomplishmentSomedayWhere You AreYoung WomenGrammyWhere You Are GoingUndercut Author:Taylor Swift
“tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.” WritingMomentsViewsDealsFocusHavensParticularAspectHistoricalDisasterMourning Author:Teju Cole
“I wanted to learn a little bit about acting, not because I thought I'd find a star vehicle and set the world on fire, but I thought the discipline of it would be good for me. I met a good coach, and I joined her class - with a lot of hungry young actors who really didn't acre if I was a rock 'n' roll singer or not. I started to learn to get a focus, without having to jump up and down every few seconds.” IfsWorldLittlesWould BeWantedYoungActorsStarsBitsActingClassFireFocusRocksDisciplineMetsLittle BitBe GoodCoachesSingersHungrySecondsRock N RollVehicleUp And DownAcresYoung ActorsGood Coaches Author:Iggy Pop
“Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in which profound struggles about identity and direction arise - struggles that Mann himself had not only reflected on but felt keenly. Visconti takes up this central focus of the novella, but he couples it with a more social perspective.” ThinkingKindAgeIndividualSocialFeltConsciousnessStruggleFocusIdentityPerspectiveCoupleProfoundArisePortraits Author:Philip Kitcher
“I'm really fortunate to have been to the schools I've been to, and to have the experiences I've had. And, partly since my parents are retired teachers, I've got the desire to give back. When I knew that I had that instinct, I got certified (through the Creativity Coaching Association) and I started working with artists of all kinds - though now I focus on writers.” GivingKindHas BeensSchoolDesireArtistParentCreativityFocusTeacherInstinctAll KindsFortunateCoachingAssociationGiving BackRetiredBack WhenRetired Teacher Author:Steven C. Harper
“In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.” IfsWayLittlesI CanReasonFactsActorsRoomsFocusFrontsListeningSittingNotesScriptsPhonesSurroundingsDistracted Author:Adam Reed
“My own show with Sterling Ruby, for example, seems like such a huge disconnection from Dior couture, but then I think, yeah, in both collections there was a very strong focus on the human hand and the actual work of people making garments. So in that sense, they were completely related. But I didn't realize that during the process.” PeopleThinkingHumansShowsHandsSeemsStrongProcessRealizingMy OwnFocusExampleHugeYeahRelatedCollectionsVery StrongGarmentsRubiesCoutureDisconnectionSterlingHuman HandsDior Author:Raf Simons
“Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEnoughFacesCompanyEnvironmentToo MuchFocusRiskExecutionCompetitorsHandful Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've tried to take on all of them in the first chapter of Knowledge and Its Place in Nature.)” ThinkingFirstsSelfReasonNumbersFocusLet MeChaptersEpistemologyUndermining Author:Hilary Kornblith
“For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. At the same time, I don't have a view of philosophy which marks it out as different in kind from scientific work” ThinkingKindDifferentPhilosophyViewsFocusOne ThingBearsMarkRaisesPhilosopher Author:Hilary Kornblith
“It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a common project of inquiry. It's also that the philosophers are well-versed in the relevant empirical data, and the scientists are well-versed in the more abstract issues which are typically the central focus of philosophical work.” WellsSpiritCommonIssuesFocusProjectsScientistPhilosophicalPhilosopherDataEngagedAbstractRelevantInvestigationInquiryRecogniseCooperatives Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.” PeopleWritingSelfMovingGoalChanceFocusHavensConsciousIncreasePlotIronicSelf ConsciousCharacterizationPacing Author:Christopher Rice
“To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.” FocusGroupsReportsFocus Groups Author:George Carlin