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“I can't say the connection is one I've made consciously, but quitting drinking allowed me to be less selfish. My wife would definitely say that one of the major benefits of me quitting drinking is that I have more time and focus for other people.”

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Author:Andy Daly

“I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.”

Want Goal Focus Achieve Bigger Caring Bigger Picture Stop Caring

Author:Keiynan Lonsdale

“For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really abstract. It's not totally fulfilling or complete, but rather an ongoing incompleteness. I'm really interested in the audience's relationship with myself, and my relationship with them.”

Certain Song Audience Focus Pops Abstract Fulfilling Ongoing Disco Incompleteness

Author:Sue Tompkins

“Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.”

World Way Seems Attention Focus Special Draws Essence Accounts Features Embedded Causation

Author:L.A. Paul

“Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.”

Humor Term Focus Easier Excellence Pursuit Pursuit Of Excellence

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.”

People Persons Born Focus Skills

Author:Jodie Foster

“I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all these guys - in the old days, there were no women, except a makeup artist or, occasionally, a script supervisor. So there were just guys who taught me how to, you know, whittle wood, or how to pull focus, and what the camera was doing. And if I was being bratty, they'd sit me down and tell me. There were lots of rules about not being late and making sure that you didn't spill anything. So it felt a little bit like I was in a family.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“What distinguishes Shambhala is its intention of trying to create a society based upon certain principles. So, Shambhala's focus is not just on the individual, but on society as a whole.”

Trying Whole Certain Individual Principles Focus Intention Shambhala

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“It's great when you can just focus your whole attention on the music and hear all of the decisions and choices that were made.”

Made Whole Choices Decision Attention Focus

Author:Michael Cera

“The distraction, particularly of technology, impedes the innovative process. And when you add to that the distraction of working with colleagues who are in different time zones and/or who have a different approach to urgency and distraction, the potential for losing focus is abundant.”

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Author:David Livermore

“I've always been making original music. I think that when I sat down with Losing Focus, I approached it different. I had a clearer understanding of who I was talking to, because I was able to go out and tour and see them right in front of me. I wanted to speak to them and speak about this lifestyle.”

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Author:Young De

“The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.”

Want Focus Fit Focal Point

Author:Beth Ditto

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

Knows Men Mind Focus Carpe Diem Concentrating Fortnight

Author:Samuel Johnson

“A majority of students who come into community colleges are still stuck at high school level or remedial math. And when they take it in college, they still don't pass it. So the Carnegie Foundation got together and created two accelerated courses that focus on real-world applications of numbers like for health, for civics, for personal finance - concepts that you and I use every single day.”

“I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.”

Feels Trying Reality Joy Focus One Day Anxiety Pressure Calm Excitement Nerves One Day At A Time

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is a focus on what's going on between people and relationships. I think so much is happening in the world at the moment, so many changes politically and culturally, writers are writing about that.”

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Author:Sean Mahon

“I try to focus more on the positive, but it's half the time I'm getting, "Oh you're only in the gym to take a picture," and it's like, "So what the f--k, I'm in here every day, I drove an hour just to take a picture?"”

Trying Hours Half Focus Gym

Author:Khloe Kardashian

“I just find it crazy what people will critique you on, and you have to take it with a grain of salt. I could be curing cancer, and I would be shunned for it. I mean, that's just the truth. People are crazy, but I like to say for every hater I have 100 people that love me and they think it's motivational, so I try to focus on that. But it's sometimes hard, you know?”

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Author:Khloe Kardashian

“I hate that our brains are wired that way. You don't remember the people that raved about us or just said something nice - I don't know why that's not in us to focus on *that*. But I think it takes a conscious effort to train our minds to change that.”

People Thinking Knows Way Mind Said Remember Hate Effort Brain Focus Nice Conscious I Hate Train

Author:Khloe Kardashian

“I read The Vegetarian and fell in love with it. A year later, I was invited to go and speak at the London Book Fair (which I'd never even heard of before), as they were gearing up for Korea being the market focus country in 2014. I met Max Porter there, Kang's editor at Portobello, sent him my sample, and the rest is history.”

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Author:Deborah Smith

“Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel we're publishing scooped the prestigious Bookseller's Award, for critically-acclaimed fiction that also has a wide popular appeal. She stands out for her focus on social minorities - her protagonists are slum inhabitants, trans women, orphans - and for the way she melds this hard-edged social critique with obliquely fantastical elements and offbeat dialogue.”

“Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.”

Book Would Be Artist Novel Focus Seeing Singers Comic Dancer Comic Book Graphic Being Cool Graphic Novels Backup

Author:Jade Hassoune

“With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there you better focus on getting there, because as we live with these characters we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.”

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Author:Aldis Hodge

“The time frame and how people treated each other was upsetting, but what's great about this story is that they really focus on the strengths of these people and the strengths of the culture, of who these Americans were. That, actually, is uplifting.”

People Stories Culture Focus Treated Uplifting Upset

Author:Aldis Hodge

“They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.”

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Author:Aldis Hodge

“My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.”

Focus Position Amount Fairs Gossip Rumor Misperception

Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.”

People Knows Want Trying Play Song Too Much Focus

Author:John Darnielle

“The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that's always in relation to what else is happening at the moment. But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.”

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Author:Alan Palomo

“I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.”

Thinking Writing Trying Force Difficult Creative Focus Lifestyle Writing Music

Author:Alan Palomo

“When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.”

People Knows Hard Can Do Focus Touring

Author:Julia Kent

“Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.”

Shows Focus Majors Research Weakness Stress Obstacles Under Stress

Author:Jane McGonigal

“You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.”

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Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“I think religious freedom is part of the U.S.'s policy and Congress mandated the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. So it is important that the U.S. focus in dialogue, development projects, cooperation with Pakistan and other countries to give more importance to religious freedom issues.”

“Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.”

Matter Lord Focus No Matter What

Author:Frances Newton

“The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.”

Way Focus Example Happenings Best Way Afghanistan

Author:Tim Hetherington

“Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they virtually ignored manufacturing. I think of lot of the troubles of the 1970s and 1980s, and now more recently the 2000s can be traced pretty directly to the biases of the business schools.”

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Author:Charles R. Morris

“For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.”

War Together Challenges Focus Battle Band Formidable

Author:Erik Rutan

“Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.”

People Thinking Inspirational Sports Worry Focus Concentrating

Author:Bobby Jones

“It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.”

Able Focus Painful

Author:Brian Chippendale

“I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Should Stuff Focus My Way Who We Are

Author:Conor McGregor

“I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.”

Kind Clear Focus

Author:Jonathan Meiburg

“When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.”

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Author:Jimenez Lai

“I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at me for anything I've left out. I feel like all the major movements of her life are there.”

Feels Trying Artist Left Focus Movement Majors Angry Hopefully Experts Left Out Trajectory

Author:Danielle Dutton

“Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could have a fun night at the show. On the other hand, all those kids could have a record that means something to them in a more personal way a couple months down the road. The live band is a really important thing for us, but my focus is on the album now.”

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Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.”

People Want Focus Focused

Author:Tracy Morgan

“Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.”

People Want Giving Focus Glory Heavenly

Author:Tracy Morgan

“We just worked hard to not just get things right and authentic, but also to make it consistent and visually right. For instance, there are colours that aren't in the film that would have been there in reality. I think part of the look of the film not only has to do with the way it's shot and lit, but also the lack of certain colours that give it a softness which really suits it because there's more focus on the characters. For instance, there's no yellow at all until we get to Miss Stubbs' flat at the very end.”

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Author:Lone Scherfig

“I think a much better use of time and resources is to really focus on your existing users or customers and figure out what changes can you make in the Web site, the service, the product, whatever, to get them to come back more often to generate that repeat business and once you kind of figure out that formula, then when you get new customers the whole thing just kind of grows exponentially.”

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Author:Tony Hsieh

“Rather than focus on trying to get a lot of customers to market yourself, really focus more on the actual product or service itself and existing users to, like, what would make them happier, what would make them come back more and more times or in our case buy more often.”

Trying Cases Focus Products Customers More Time Users

Author:Tony Hsieh

“So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.”

People Two Reality Night Sleep Focus Stage Really Deep Deep Sleep

Author:Shelby Harris

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