“We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state.” MadeStatesWould BeFocusVictoryMajorsReformGreeceMandatesLandslides Author:George Papandreou
“There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.” PeopleIfsMadeRealKidsGrowsStuffRoomsFocusCoupleDramaCommitment Author:Jeremy Sisto
“When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.” HeartMadeFilmDecisionStudyFocusPlansGroupsNflSurveysDemographicsBusiness PlanFocus Groups Author:Steve Sabol
“I made Simon Cowell look stupid once. He is terrified of presenting so I gave him the microphone and walked away. He hates interviewing people it means the focus is off him.” PeopleLooksMeanMadeHateFocusStupidTerrifiedPresentingMicrophones Author:Ryan Seacrest
“I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another.” WorldMadeTwoEyeLyingTurnsFoundSidesVisionSawsFocusCuttingSeeingFrontsFieldsOriginalsLaysCentreExtensionsStopping Author:Joseph Plaskett
“It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength.” KnowsWorldWayShouldMadeTwoCountryPassionHouseDifficultWonderFocusPersonalityMembersThirdsStartingDebateIntimacySeatsIntensityChamberSpontaneityParliamentaryHouse Of CommonsInformality Author:Winston Churchill
“Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes.” WorldWritingKindMadeDifferentEyePoetrySpaceDecisionFocusIdentityPoetConsciousAreasToolsPoeticDifferent KindsDifferent PlaceInteractingClearingSingle Word Author:Tracy K. Smith
“One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow.” WorldKindMadeFocusEffectsPossibilityPersonalityBehaviorMoodCocaine Author:George Carlin
“It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.” LongMadeSeemsWaitingFocusLong TimeWaiting For Something Author:Michael Cera
“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.” YearsMadeSchoolGamesEasyEducationWonderFocusTeacherIndustryDollarsProfitEducationalSurfaceAidsBillionsCardsVisualsTapeFlashLots Of MoneyTextbooksManualsAudioCassettesAudio Visual Book:Marva Collins Way Source: Marva Collins Way
“I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?” PeopleFeelsMadeNationsWatchesFocusSecurityStriveNotionChecksWorriedInsecureClearance Book:Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World Source: Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
“My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness” MadeBeautifulCitiesFocusIndiaGovernanceGood HealthCleanlinessParametersBeautiful City Author:Narendra Modi
“There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.” WorldWantWellsMadeHardOrderSportsFocusMediaFighterBoxingGreat BoxingBoxing ChampionsLack Of Respect Author:Marvin Hagler
“I feel passionately about issues, and I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus group-tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. Now that has always made some people, you know, uneasy. Some people like that style, some people don't. [...] But I am not a bully.” PeopleKnowsFeelsMadePoliticalPoliticsCommunityPartyEmotionIssuesFocusGroupsStyleHuman NatureStrategyBlowIdeologyCandidatesGovernorsBullyTestedPolitical PartiesCivilityUneasyFocus Groups Author:Chris Christie
“There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad."” MadeFocusCriticsTendencies Author:George Lucas
“I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.” LittlesMadeNextLevelsFocusMysteryLaborMade ItPrecisionArtworkNext Level Author:Jacob Hashimoto
“Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.” MadeProblemChoicesFocusImpossibleLessonsScalesFewerBad ChoicesChoices Made Author:Evan Williams
“...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.” PeopleYearsFirstsLittlesMadeSaidValuesAttentionOpinionRichFocusGroupsMediaPolicyOfficeSixPressesBritishScalesPay AttentionJournalistPhrasesLogicalConsideringConsistencyPollsWhimHacksBlairCondemningPoodlesOpinion PollsFocus Groups Author:Larry King
“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.” YearsFirstsMadeTwoFilmFoundFiveFocusHappenedProgramChosenWinnerFeaturesParisShort FilmsResidency Author:Chika Anadu
“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.” MadeMistakeFocusBehaviorAchievementDeedsDialogueGood DeedsMy MistakesExplicitBad Behavior Author:Leslye Headland
“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.” IfsMadeWarPresidentEffortClearFocusOfficeOriginalsStrategyIraqCandidatesAfghanistanNeglectedUnclear Author:Jay Carney
“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.” FeelsWritingMadeUseProcessEnjoyLevelsResultsFocusProgressJourneyTomorrowDirectGratefulCommittedAccomplishFeel GoodClarityEach DayJournalStrategicAccelerateBetter TomorrowForward Progress Author:Hal Elrod
“Having had been not so well traveled as a kid, as most teenagers aren't, I always thought, "Okay I'm going to focus my energy on rap and the rap game, because that's how I'm going to be able to pay rent and pay off my school loans." But seeing the reaction with this whole gay rap situation has made me not want to play into it at all anymore and just make whatever.” WantWellsMadePlayWholeKidsAbleSchoolGamesEnergyPaySituationFocusSeeingGayOkayRapReactionsTeenagerTraveledLoan Author:Le1f
“It has been asserted that there is a separate species on the earth to correspond with each one of the stars. Now if the earth provides in each species a focus for the action of each star, why may not a similar provision be made among other heavenly bodies that are subject to the action of their fellows?” IfsMayHas BeensMadeBodyActionEarthStarsFocusSubjectsFellowsSpeciesHeavenlyProvisionHeavenly Bodies Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made me focus in on the actors a lot more. I didn't have the distraction of looking at my surroundings.” MadeActorsBrainFocusDistractionSurroundingsImaginative Author:Dennis Haysbert
“In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.” GivingMadeEndsSometimesStoriesBeautifulChoicesMy OwnClearFocusConsequenceTruthfulBeautiful ThingsMy Own Life Author:Jaco Van Dormael
“Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.” WorldWellsMadeFilmLife IsLostFocusHollywoodEvolve Author:Kenneth Anger
“Little decisions were made, every day. In this movie [The Hunger Games], we really focused on Cinna and we didn't get time to focus on the other stylist.” LittlesMadeGamesDecisionFocusHungerFocusedStylistCinna Author:Nina Jacobson
“I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.” IfsFeelsMadeBookThreeGamesKnowingFocusHungerAmazing Book Author:Nina Jacobson
“Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.” MadeBeautifulJoyGivenParentFocusChangedBecomingBecoming A Parent Author:Angelina Jolie
“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.)” FirstsLooksLittlesMadeWholeEyeSituationFocusFrontsCamerasShootingPresidentialCandidatesHis EyesSenatorsPresidential CandidateBobby KennedyBusboys Author:Bill Eppridge
“One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds.” PeopleFeelsBelieveMadeFactsUseFilmUsedChoicesLanguageI BelieveDifficultSoundSimpleAudienceFocusParticularResearchTasksMereCinemaFilmmakerVisualsEngagingVery PopularDifficult Tasks Author:Djibril Diop Mambety
“I do less of that stuff now because I figured out that when I was writing things I didn't care about, it made me angry and depressed, so I turned my focus to what does make me happy, and also I recognized that one of the things that gives me great happiness is teaching creative writing, and so I could write profiles of professional golfers or I could be a professor. Being a professor made me much happier.” GivingWritingDoeMadeCareStuffCreativeFocusTeachingGive MeAngryProfessorsCreative WritingGolfersProfileMake Me HappyGreat Happiness Author:Tod Goldberg
“Best thing that's ever happened to me. I focus so much less on me. It's made me content, it's made me happy. It's like a Christmas present every single day that I get to unwrap. It's hard work.” MadeHardFocusHappenedHard WorkBest ThingsChristmas Present Author:Molly Sims
“As a kid, I loved my Matchbox cars, my Big Wheels, and the race cars on TV. When I laid eyes on my first go-kart when I was just five, it gave my desire for making things with wheels go fast a focus. This combined with the fact that I've been incredibly competitive since a young age made for the proper mix of passion and aggression to become a race car driver.” FirstsMadeFactsBigsEyeKidsAgeYoungDesirePassionRaceFiveFocusCarTvsWheelsDriversAggressionYoung AgeRace CarRace Car DriverMatchboxes Author:Andy Lally
“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.” PeopleMadeI CanFocusWifeBenefitsMajorsConnectionsDrinkingMy WifeSelfishQuittingMore TimeQuit Drinking Author:Andy Daly
“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.” MadeWholeChoicesDecisionAttentionFocus Author:Michael Cera
“Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they did very early, early on when they were trying to, you know, get Germany into the war, whether it be anti-Semitic movies like "Jud Suss," or "The Eternal Jew," or movies made against the Polish to help, you know, create sympathy for them to invade Poland. You know, there'd be movies where there would be some German girl living in Poland who's raped by the Polish or something.” KnowsTryingMadeBookWarEnoughHelpingWould BeGirlFocusWrittenSubjectsEternalVery GoodJewGermanyPolishHatefulPolandAnti Semitic Author:Quentin Tarantino
“"Dukes of Hazzard" or something you could, you know that, your work is going to be made up of that - episodic television shows. Not that I got many of them, but that was where I - but actually oddly enough though, they were teaching camera terminology at the same time in this acting class, so I actually was able to understand what rack focus and whip pan and all that stuff meant.” KnowsMadeEnoughShowsAbleStuffActingClassFocusTeachingTelevisionCamerasWhipsTelevision ShowsDukesRacksActing ClassesTerminologyDukes Of Hazzard Author:Quentin Tarantino
“If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.” IfsThinkingMadeSelfProblemFormAttentionIssuesFocusFailingParticularCurrentsNeglectScopeSelf ContainedGlobal Issues Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Peter Hart, who's a pollster that's - who's done many focus groups about Hillary Clinton, talks about a glass curtain. She talks about the glass ceiling. He says voters feel there's a glass curtain between themselves and Hillary Clinton. They can't relate to her. They feel they don't really understand her, and that's made it easier for her opponents, of which there have been many over many years, to define her the way they want to.” WayWantFeelsYearsHas BeensMadeDoneFocusGroupsEasierClintonGlassesMade ItRelateOpponentsVotersPeterCurtainsCeilingsHartGlass CeilingFocus Groups Author:Tamara Keith
“I have changed the focus of the work of my Commission so that we no longer concern ourselves with trivial details and concentrate on the key issues instead. By doing that, we met a large number of the legitimate demands made by the British people. The Commission really did do everything it could to create the conditions for a positive campaign.” PeopleMadeNumbersIssuesFocusConditionsChangedKeysMetsDemandConcernDetailsBritishCampaignsLarge NumbersI Have Changed Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“When I started wrestling in the eighth grade, I just fell in love with it, and started shifting my focus more to that. I considered playing in college, but it made more sense for me to wrestle, because I weigh about a buck fifty.” MadeFocusCollegeFiftyGradesWrestlingShiftingBucksEighth Grade Author:Urijah Faber