Best focus & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“First, our focus on security is on the infrastructure itself. So it is all about how you protect the network, the device, and the application that is riding on the server.”

Firsts Focus Security Protect Devices Application Riding Infrastructure Server

Author:John W. Thompson

“There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.”

Firsts Bigs Black President Race Focus Risk Possibility Months Republican Six Democratic Clinton Contests Black Women Six Months Qualified Nominations

Author:Barack Obama

“Some people like to focus on other aspects of my life, but first and foremost I am a dedicated and top swimmer.”

People Firsts Focus Aspect Dedicated Swimmer

Author:Amanda Beard

“FEMA has lost its focus, and Floridians know first-hand of the agency's shortcomings, .. Natural disaster preparedness and response programs have become trapped in a homeland security bureaucracy.”

“Somebody once told me, ‘Manage the top line, and the bottom line will follow.’ What's the top line? It's things like, why are we doing this in the first place? What's our strategy? What are customers saying? How responsive are we? Do we have the best products and the best people? Those are the kind of questions you have to focus on.”

People Firsts Kind Lines Focus Products Strategy Bottom Customers Manage Bottom Line

Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Firsts Character Focus Talent Greatness Primaries

Book:Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon.”

Firsts Believe Eye Beautiful I Believe Focus Photographer Originality Definite Lenses Very Beautiful Flukes

Author:Julia Margaret Cameron

“In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated.”

Mind Firsts Long Two Use Running Energy Attention Steps Focus Meditation Gains Clarity Purity Long Jump

Author:S. N. Goenka

“If you're lucky enough to be able to have therapy -- because I know it's very privileged -- it gets rid of so much garbage and enables you to focus on what's important. When I first went into analysis, my mother was absolutely horrified. She thought I'd be a loony!”

Ifs Knows Firsts Important Enough Able Mother Focus Lucky Analysis Therapy Privileged Garbage What's Important

Author:Julie Andrews

“But, as potentially the first African American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations; conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating? Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?”

Firsts Sometimes Enough Careers Too Much Focus Mom Conversation Angry African American Loud Rooted Speculation First Lady Career Women Misperception

Author:Michelle Obama

“When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.”

Thinking Want Firsts Would Be Felt Forget Focus Failing Fans Becoming Performances Pressure Reactions Admire Frightened Legends Jane Austen Playing Someone

Author:Anne Hathaway

“I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless. I had no other plan for a job, because from seventh grade on, I had planned on law. So I shifted my focus from classes to extracurricular activities.”

Firsts School Jobs Law Three Found Interesting Class Focus Plans Week Grew Activity Bored Grades Fourth Restless Tedious Law School Seventh Grade Extracurricular Activities

Author:Demetri Martin

“Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.”

People Love Trying Mind Firsts Night Forget Enemy Focus Worst Anxiety Stress Slave Be Good Wander Awake Worst Enemy Good Love Awake At Night

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost.”

Knows Firsts Jobs Focus Balls Expected Toasts

Author:Larry Fitzgerald

“Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.”

Years Firsts Shows Remember Next Actors Successful Focus Example Tvs Musician Versions Pilots Tape Tv Shows Auditions Demos Famous Musician Famous Actor

Author:Derek Sivers

“My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.”

People Way Firsts Looks Has Beens Focus Talent Constant Theme Emphasis Reminders

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.”

Knows Firsts Important Energy Know How Focus Husband Important Things Trivia

Author:Michael Korda

“There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.”

Thinking Way Firsts May Three Ability Focus Pieces Information Rounds Data Streams Contemplating Interrupted

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit, is located in the center of the chest, dead center. If you focus there you will feel a warm and tingling sensation.”

Ifs Feels Years Firsts Heart Focus Meditation Buddhism Warm Sensations Chests Beneficial Chakra Sanskrit Chakra Meditation Heart Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.”

Firsts My Own Consciousness Focus Violence Remove

Author:Deepak Chopra

“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”

“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Believe Results Company Focus Duty Return Citizens Solutions Opposites Come Up Genuine Consumers Improving Shareholders Fiduciary

Author:Paul Polman

“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.”

“Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.”

Firsts Enough Names Language Common Focus

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes of 'House of Cards,' but I thought it was way over the top. Members of Congress aren't anything like Frank Underwood. Most of us are far less interesting.”

Way Firsts Shows House Politics Interesting Break Focus Couple Members Congress Cards Frank Episodes Over The Top House Of Cards

Author:Paul Ryan

“What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.”

Ifs World Should Writing Firsts Can Do Attention Worry Focus Succeed Demon Maintaining

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.”

Writing Firsts Passion Energy Focus

Author:Sean Stone

“We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.”

Needs Firsts Force Lines Attention Attitude Focus Our Lives Please Activity Driving Driving Force God First

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“I don't know much about the music business, but for just general advice for someone trying to create things, as simple as this sounds, I think the best thing you can do is constantly try to improve upon your work. Always focus on that first and foremost, and leave everything else (marketing, image) completely secondary. Obviously, easier said than done when you're trying to make a living, but if you can move along those lines and earnestly try to make things that you really enjoy it can only benefit you in the long run.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Firsts Long Said Done Running Moving Enjoy Sound Can Do Lines Simple Focus Advice Easier Benefits Marketing Best Things Long Runs Music Business Easier Said Than Done

Author:Joe Rogan

“Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.”

Firsts Hard Film Easy Focus Aspect Various

Author:George Lucas

“We use similar products. Our focus industry is healthcare and hospitality. But we haven?t done anything interactive. The first day full of seminars is full of things I thought would be useful: quick service restaurant and mobile phone applications. Businesses are providing more services and products by self-service means.”

“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

“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

“We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.”

Ifs Giving Feels Firsts Heart Joy Focus Mines Creating Musician Capable Miracle Breaths Excuse Masterpiece No Excuses Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Carlos Santana

“...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense - and that he was ignoring the will of the British people. Considering the hacks had spent Blair's first six years in office condemning him for relying on focus groups and opinion polls for his policies - in other words, paying attention to nothing but the will of the people, or at least their whims - that seemed a little rich to me, but as I said, logical consistency has never figured highly in the British media's scale of values.”

“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

“The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens.”

Firsts Happens Wanted Games Goal Focus Graduates Championship Coming Back Get Ahead National Championships

Author:Will Smith

“No one wants to say they hate their own body. Many are scared that if they confide in others then people will look down on them. This is wrong. It's not weak to talk about it. On the contrary. It's the same with alcoholics and drug addicts - you have to be honest with yourself first. When you have accepted the negatives you can then focus on the positives, like, I have nice hair, nice eyes, great cheekbones.”

“First, we need good, stable relations with Russia. Second, we must make every effort to save energy and focus on using various sources to meet our energy needs. We must not allow ourselves to become dependent.”

Needs Firsts Energy Effort Focus Source Relation Various Russia Dependent Stable Saving Energy

Author:Angela Merkel

“I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.”

Firsts Doe Light Wanted Remember Asks Focus Directors Asking Cameras Errors Lenses Margins Asking Questions Playgrounds

Author:Paul Bettany

“Keep God first. If you do that, if you just focus on God and keeping Him first, then everything else will just take care of itself. Do everything for Him.”

Ifs Firsts Care Focus Take Care God First Focus On God Keep God First

Author:John Salmons

“I've always thought that if my death was imminent, I would read. When I can't focus on a book, I tend to keep reading the same page. My guess is, I would've read, like the first page of Nicholas Nickleby over and over again.”

Ifs Firsts I Can Book Reading Focus Pages

Author:Paula Poundstone

“The real focus at first is to just become a good stand-up comedian, and then when you get to a certain level, then they allow you to do other things. You feel if you're overwhelmed by something or if you're not.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Real Certain Levels Focus Comedian Overwhelmed Stand Up Comedian

Author:Jon Stewart

“There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)”

Firsts Looks Littles Made Whole Eye Situation Focus Fronts Cameras Shooting Presidential Candidates His Eyes Senators Presidential Candidate Bobby Kennedy Busboys

Author:Bill Eppridge

“I believe in a America first foreign policy, that far too often President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton - and, unfortunately, more than a few Republicans - have gotten distracted from the central focus of keeping this country safe.”

Firsts Believe Country America I Believe President Focus Policy Republican Safe Clinton I Believe In Barack Foreign Policy Distracted President Barack Obama

Author:Ted Cruz

“I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.”

World Years Firsts Wanted Lasts Song Steps Growing Up Focus Growing Materials Theater Inspired Musical First Steps Steps Forward Musical Theater

Author:Josh Groban

“Before you sweat the logistics of focus: ﬁrst, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning ﬂares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.”

Knows Way Firsts Heart May Matter Problem Seems Might Care Suffering Focus Devil Fundamentals Deeper Warning Peculiar Distraction Sweat Sensible Volume Logistics Obsessing

Author:Merlin Mann

“If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?”

Ifs Firsts Stories Joy Literature Focus Elements Linguistics

Author:T.C. Boyle

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