“I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.” KnowsTryingMeanFocusFameFleeting Author:Taylor Momsen
“The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there's always a place for that too.” MeanShowsCoursesFocusHugeSingersSongwritersSinger Songwriters Author:Emeli Sande
“The question is wholly other, deeper and equally relevant to all: whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of human beings as the initial measure of things, placing morality above politics and responsibility above our desires, in making human community meaningful, in returning content to human speech, in reconstituting, as the focus of all social action, the autonomous, integral, and dignified human "I."” WorldHumansMeanActionDesireSocialCommunityNaturalHuman BeingsResponsibilityFocusMoralitySucceedSpeechMeaningfulSustainabilityInitialsNatural WorldPersonal ExperiencesAutonomousTerrainSocial Action Author:Vaclav Havel
“My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.” TryingMeanStillsRealDoneEyeSongBehindsFocusBandThoughtful Author:Ian MacKaye
“I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.” WayMeanPersonsBigsKidsFocusMagicOne ThingManagementFactorsOrganizedTime ManagementFragmentsMikeOne Thing At A TimeMagic Mike Author:Elizabeth Banks
“To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.” GivingHeartMeanCertainEnergyAttentionBrainFocusWanderConcentrationAttending Book:The Flame of Attention Source: The Flame of Attention
“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
“Self-discovery is a process of dissolution and creation. Dissolution means envelopment in eternity. Creation is bringing into focus new awareness” MeanSelfProcessFocusAwarenessCreationDiscoveryEternitySelf DiscoveryMysticismDissolution Author:Frederick Lenz
“If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, "What would make me happy?" In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn't work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs. I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.” IfsWayNeedsFeelsWellsMeanSelfPlayFeelingsAsksInterestAnswersEffortTalkingRolesFocusModelsGuidesSelfishnessRole ModelsYou ChooseSelf InterestMake You HappyMake Me HappyNot TalkingFeels RightLoving OthersPersonal Needs Author:Bernie Siegel
“As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.” ThinkingTryingMeanHardPracticeSuccessfulFocusKeysDisciplineGet BetterChanging My LifeAlways Working Author:Lou Reed
“Due to people's health, and certain things that have happened to people's physicality because of their healthy, that would probably keep us from touring per se. It doesn't mean that the original band wouldn't someday do a song. But our focus is on the current band, and moving into the future, as far as touring is concerned.” PeopleMeanMovingCertainSongFocusHappenedHealthyBandConcernedOriginalsCurrentsDuesSomedayTouringPhysicality Author:Phil Ehart
“I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.” WayMeanWould BeAbleActingFocusPaintingPressurePaintPainterGradesSplitsReluctantSixth Grade Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.” MeanHardDifficultFocus Author:Seth Godin
“If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.” IfsGivingMeanHelpingCareIssuesFocusDollarsCharityNobody CaresDodgers Author:Mark Walter
“Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.” MenMindHumansWellsMeanChildrenIdeasLastsOrderFiveFocusBirthNeededPercentUnderstoodLaborPropertySuspectsOwnershipTimingHuman HistoryIntercourseHerbsReproductionMobilityWomen's Health Author:Gloria Steinem
“All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.” PeopleLifeHumansMayMeanSeemsMotivationalHappinessWealthHuman BeingsMoneyFocusExampleProduceActivityFulfillmentGood LifeHappy LifeWorthwhileVirtuousLife HappinessMisguidedWorthwhile Things Author:Epictetus
“I mean, that was a throwaway thought, because my focus was - my intent and my focus was to never go public.” MeanGirlFocusMean Girls Author:Bill O'Reilly
“Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.” PeopleLoveNeedsMeanHas BeensSelfTodayFocusTroubleEmotionalMeetingsCommittedPartnersSelfishSelfishnessDestructiveSentimentalSense Of SelfCommitted RelationshipHeterosexual Marriage Author:Mike Huckabee
“One thing that's great about having kids, especially given my career, is that it forces you out of your narcissism. I mean, I'm in a career where my product is me. So it was nice to have something, someone, come along and take the focus off me. I really needed to give myself some distractions from myself.” GivingMeanKidsGivenForceCareersFocusNiceOne ThingProductsNeededDistractionNarcissismHaving Kids Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“It`s not our conditions, but our decisions that shape our lives. I truly believe that it`s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. So choose carefully what things mean, and what to do about them. With conscious focus, a connection with our loving nature, and a desire to serve, we truly can experience heaven while still here on earth.” BelieveMeanStillsMomentsEarthDesireHeavenDecisionDestinyFocusOur LivesConditionsShapesConsciousConnectionsOur DestinyYour DestinyYour MomLoving Nature Author:Tony Robbins
“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.” ThinkingFeelsMeanMomentsFilmCan DoFocusStageLike YouIntegrityTheaterCamerasIntentionExtraordinaryDareScreensCinemaIntensityTheatricalViewpointsCan Do SomethingExtraordinary Moments Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses.” PeopleMeanEndsHelpingAmericaActingFocusSecurityBecomingNeededFinancialActressesHelping OthersCorporateWorking ItPlatformsExposurePhilanthropicNew BusinessMeans To An EndCorporate AmericaFinancial SecurityBusiness Minded Author:Eva Longoria
“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.” FirstsMeanSelfDoneUseHumorWould BeFunnyFocusHavensProductsIndustryPhonesRestaurantsApplicationHealthcareProvidingHospitalityMobileMobile PhonesInteractiveSeminarsSelf Service Author:Milton Jones
“Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference.” MeanProblemHandsAbleFocusConfidenceGolfInterference Author:Tom Watson
“I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all. I don't take anything back, so I do look after them to some degree. But my main focus is on what I'm doing now.” LooksMeanStillsSongFocusBandDegrees Author:Ian MacKaye
“I focus most of my attention on Hillary Clinton and her disastrous policies. I mean, there's a real danger in this election. Electing Hillary Clinton in an era where we now are so pessimistic about the future, would double down on [Barack] Obama economics and a failed foreign policy - so most of my attention is about my record and about defeating Hillary Clinton.” MeanRealAttentionRecordsFocusDangerPolicyEconomicsElectionClintonBarackErasForeign PolicyPessimistic Author:Jeb Bush
“Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.” MeanPersonsIdeasDifferentNightProcessFocusPiecesLatePainfulArticlesMultipleLate NightDifferent Ideas Author:Noma Bar
“Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.” MeanDoeFocusSaying NoSaying Yes Author:Steve Jobs
“I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksMeanDifferentShowsRaceFocusFashionSeriousMy FavoriteDifferent ThingsDragMean People Author:Jason Wu
“This deep insecurity has been going on for a while. I mean I picked it up in 2014 sitting in focus groups of women who were feeling terrified, not just about that ISIS was coming, but terrified that their children couldn't be safe at school, terrified about what was happening in Ferguson and other places.” MeanChildrenHas BeensFeelingsSchoolFocusGroupsSafeHappeningsSittingInsecurityTerrifiedIsisFergusonFocus Groups Author:Chuck Todd
“I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?” KnowsMenWorldGivingMeanChildrenRealityKidsCoursesParentWatchesFocusFrontsTelevisionBagsDepressingCartoonPillsOf ContextFreaking OutYuppiesReally Depressing Author:Emily Haines
“Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I always believe that the government should focus on its comparative advantages, and banking is not one of them. It should, therefore, if it nationalizes banks, sell them back to the private sector.” IfsShouldBelieveMeanGovernmentFocusShapesAdvantageSellsOwnersTemporaryBankingAlways BelievePrivate SectorComparative Advantage Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.” PeopleKnowsMeanTwoPlayShowsSongStarsMemoriesFocusRocksTvsNeededPureElementsMusicianGuitarRoundsRhythmJust OneTv ShowsRock StarEntertainersEarly Work Author:Pete Townshend
“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.” IfsMeanPersonsDoeWholeSchoolGamesActingFocusApproachTheater Author:Mackenzie Davis
“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.” ThinkingWayWantLooksMeanStillsIdeasValuesFocusFitAddSimplicityFeaturesMentalityHaikuSingularity Author:Biz Stone
“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.” WayHumansMeanHardLanguageProcessInterestMistakeFocusOne ThingPoetMaterialsFocusedIntenseHorribleMysteriousHuman ExperiencePortalHorrible ThingsActivate Author:Matthew Zapruder
“So forget the price tag. I mean, forget the size tag and focus on "Does it look right on me?" Would it look better with a little more blouse? A lot of people think, "Oh, my God, it's got to be tight, it's got to be tight." Actually, you look thinner when it's not as tight.” PeopleThinkingLooksMeanLittlesDoeForgetFocusSizeTagPrice TagBlouses Author:Molly Sims
“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
“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?” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingMeanSometimesHardWould BeFocusCrazyCancerSaltGrainCritiqueGrain Of Salt Author:Khloe Kardashian
“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.” WayWantMeanImportantPlayShowsHandsKidsNightFunRecordsFocusMonthsCoupleBandTownsImportant ThingsAlbumsHeyDown The RoadSwedenSwitzerlandLatviaFun Night Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.” MeanDoeFocusFieldsDependsEthicsIslamRanIslamicComing BackHere I AmSunnah Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm cases are irrelevant, but you have to focus on the values the framers were trying to protect, not on the means with which those values were invaded in the 18th century.” ThinkingWantTryingMeanTodayValuesJusticeAnswersCasesFocusCenturyProtectModelsOriginalsProgressiveIrrelevantParadigm18th CenturyFramersLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“I focus for periods of time on creative work and I'm very insular during those times - not a lot of socializing. I play when I want. That means I can take off on a retreat, catch a matinee, make friends. My core desired feelings are my time management system.” WantMeanI CanPlayFeelingsCreativeFocusPeriodsManagementCoreMy TimeTime ManagementRetreatCreative WorkSocializingManagement Systems Author:Danielle LaPorte
“Focus on executing to give maximum value to your customers. That means learning everything from financing to producing to marketing.” GivingMeanValuesFocusMarketingCustomersMaximumFinancingExecutingLearning Everything Author:Tony Robbins
“I'm not someone who works a lot, and what I mean by that is that I have a project and I focus on it, and I don't spread myself too thin. I try to give as much as I can to that project, and if we have a lot of time, that's amazing for me, because I like to really dive deep and do as much as I can.” IfsGivingTryingMeanI CanFocusProjectsSpread Author:Logan Lerman
“As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.” MeanSelfFocusSanityPreservationSelf Preservation Author:Anthony Green