“I think there's a need for somewhat of a mindset change. We need to have a consistent external focus. We've always had the research labs. We've always had the resources to be innovative, and we've been innovative in a number of businesses. But, in any big company, you have to constantly push people to look at markets and customers, rather than look internally at themselves.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksBigsNumbersCompanyFocusResearchResourcesCustomersMindsetConsistentInnovativeLabsBig Companies Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt
“Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantYearsValuesReadingFocusGroupsPoliticianSmellAuthenticityConsumersUnderestimatePhonyFocus Groups Author:Rochelle B Lazarus
“One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.” PeopleShouldLooksDifferencesFocusSimilarityCommonality Author:Theodore Levitt
“Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.” PeopleJobsAbilityFocusRevolutionaryUsersAmazing ThingsInterfacesUser Interface Author:Bill Gates
“If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.” PeopleIfsLooksHappensBehindsWatchesFocusFateGroupsMankindTelevisionCrossesGlassesScarySectionsReally ScaryFocus Groups Author:Adrian Pasdar
“I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.” PeopleThinkingAbleArtistFocusNegativeFollowersThank GodNegative People Author:Nicki Minaj
“Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.” PeopleIfsNeedsDoneEnoughFocusCommitmentExecutionFollow Through Author:Kenneth I. Chenault
“When a leader in the Church inspires council members with vision, he helps them focus on their real mission so that they are ministering to people rather than merely administering programs.” PeopleRealHelpingChurchLeaderVisionFocusInspireMembersProgramMissionsCouncil Author:M. Russell Ballard
“The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.” PeopleHas BeensAgeMovingSufferingMillionsTechnologyFocusInformationMiseryDrivenSavingImprovingGeekLiftingLivelihoodMeekSave A LifeInformation AgeSqualorMisery And Suffering Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Unlike most of life, what you do really matters. Your actions have real consequences. You have to pay attention and focus, and that's very satisfying. It forces you to pay great attention and you lose yourself in the task at hand. Without the risk, that wouldn't happen, so the risk is an essential part of climbing, and that's hard for some people to grasp. You can't justify the risk when things go wrong and people die. The greater the risk, the greater the reward in most aspects of life, and in climbing that's certainly true, too. It's very physical, you use your mind and your body.” PeopleMindRealMatterHardUseBodyHandsHappensActionDiesForceLosesPayAttentionGreaterFocusRiskEssentialsConsequenceAspectTasksRewardsYour BodyPay AttentionJustifyClimbingSatisfyingLosing YourselfAspects Of LifeWhen Things Go WrongTask At Hand Author:Jon Krakauer
“A lot of people try to use sarcasm to flirt, and it tends not to read well. Most people who are successful at flirting do so via instant message instead of email. The best way to flirt is to care deeply about whatever your date is saying and to focus all of your attention on him or her. Ask thoughtful questions. Take a keen interest in the conversation. Be enthusiastic.” PeopleWayTryingWellsUseCareAsksInterestAttentionSuccessfulFocusConversationMessagesBest WayInstantThoughtfulSarcasmFlirtingEmailEnthusiastic Author:Amy Webb
“On January 27, 2001, the focus of my career and the process of changing the desires of my heart all began. It was no longer about me but rather how I could impact others for the Kingdom. I officially was in the people business. That philosophy, combined with a warrior mentality, I believe, has endeared me to being labeled a positive clubhouse influence.” PeopleBelieveHeartPhilosophyDesireI BelieveProcessCareersFocusInfluenceMy HeartImpactKingdomsWarriorMentalityJanuary Author:Tony Clark
“Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is how talented people make movies for 14-year-olds while retaining their self-respect.” PeopleYearsHas BeensSelfFocusAspectSelf RespectSuperheroAlienationRetainingFreaky Author:David Edelstein
“The key to a great life lies in shifting your focus from accumulation to contribution. The old saying "He who gathers the most toys wins" needs to be replaced with "He who serves the most prospers". Remember, happiness is the by-product of a life spent adding value to other people's lives.” PeopleNeedsRememberLyingValuesWinningFocusProductsKeysContributionToysReplacedShiftingAccumulationOld SayingAdding Value Author:Robin Sharma
“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
“So it's an interesting process just going through and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what's the best version of it. It was a good process because I think we all collectively, when everyone would run into issues in the cut or know that things weren't working, they kind of glaringly stuck out so we could focus on fixing those things and it wasn't a situation where you would show it to ten people and you would have ten problems.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindShowsProblemRunningProcessInterestingSituationIssuesFocusCuttingSeeingTenStuckVersionsFixing Author:Bryan Burk
“Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.” PeopleShouldImportantResultsNumbersFocusAreas Author:Ken Blanchard
“People in a state like Pennsylvania, especially in the middle of the state, as you say, want the focus on repairing the state. Pennsylvania is a mess in terms of infrastructure. They don`t want to blow up bridges over there. They want to build them here.” PeopleWantStatesTermFocusMiddleBlowMessBridgesInfrastructurePennsylvaniaRepairing Author:Chris Matthews
“I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensTalkingFocusMovementConversationHearingRight Thing Author:Dalia Mogahed
“Others are Ahead of me. I am continually Challenged. My focus is Forward. The atmosphere is Affirming. I am often out of my Comfort Zone. I wake up Excited. Failure is not my Enemy. Others are Growing. People desire Change. Growth is Modeled and Expected.” PeopleDesireGrowthEnemyFocusGrowingComfortWake UpExcitedExpectedAtmosphereZoneComfort ZoneAffirmingChange Growth Author:John C. Maxwell
“I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.” PeopleThinkingShouldResultsToo MuchFocusPositivePoliticianAspectBeefPositive Things Author:LL Cool J
“I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.” PeopleIfsFeelsLongEasyAttentionFocusHeardBlockAttention SpanShort Attention Spans Author:Dan Quayle
“I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.” PeopleWayJobsGoalFocusSmartAccomplishCeoResumesSmart PeopleRoadblock Author:John Fairclough
“I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.” PeopleThinkingIndividualDarkAudienceFocusMembersOrganismsHydra Author:Emo Philips
“There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.” PeopleWellsFocusOne ThingStormFreakFrustrated Author:Taylor Swift
“I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.” PeopleWorldNeedsMayI CanHelpingLeftFocusAmountNormalOrdinarySmokingOrdinary PeopleDo The BestNeed HelpStop Smoking Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't read Breaking Dawn yet. It's just too crazy. There's too much going on that you need a map. I just try to focus on one movie at a time. When we were doing New Moon press, people were already asking about Eclipse. I didn't read it until I was ready to go, so that it was fresh and I wasn't jumbled with all this other stuff.” PeopleNeedsTryingFilmReadingStuffToo MuchFocusWrittenCrazyHavensReadyMoonAskingPressesShootingDawnMapsEclipseEmilyNew MoonBreaking DawnEmily's Author:Tinsel Korey
“They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )” PeopleWorldRealityWantedUsedPurposeAttentionFocusSpecialDrawsPhotographUglyBackgroundsArtisticDepressingCrapUrbanCartoonUtilityMundaneBleakStanleySnapshotsUrban LifeSacramento Author:Robert Crumb
“It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.” PeopleSeemsEnemyToo MuchFocusRiskResponsibleMiseryKillingTerroristInnocentPropagandaRanHardshipAfghanistanPromotingCiviliansShieldsTalibanCasualties Author:Walter Isaacson
“Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingStillsI CanChristianAmericaMovingJesusChurchKnow HowFocusCuttingEuropeSavedTheologyThanksHopefulHopelessLatinSheepShiftingLatin AmericaSystematicGoatsNorth AmericaMake A Move Author:William Henry Willimon
“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantWritingTryingHas BeensIdeasDifferentWantedTogetherThreeGoalTermRecordsFocusGroupsBandProjectsMusicianCome UpAlbumsFortunateConsistentNew IdeasGigs Author:Dave Douglas
“We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep their jobs, the need for rising wages, whether our children when they graduate from college can find a job, protecting the homeland, destroying ISIS, rebuilding defense. These are all the things that we need to focus on but we'll never get there if we're divided. We'll never get there if republicans and democrats just fight with one another.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsChildrenCountryBigsJobsFacesFightingIssuesFocusCollegeRepublicanCreatingOur ChildrenDemocratDefenseOur CountryRisingDividedDestroyingGraduatesWagesIsisHomelandRebuildingCreating Jobs Author:John Kasich
“Nidal Hasan communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a known radical cleric, asked about waging jihad against his fellow soldiers. The problem is because of political correctness, the [Barack] Obama administration, like a lot of folks here, want to search everyone's cell phones and e-mails and not focus on the bad guys. And political correctness is killing people.” PeopleWantProblemPoliticalGuyKnownFocusFellowsKillingSoldierFolksPhonesRadicalAdministrationCellsBarackAlsMailBad GuysCell PhonePolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessJihadFellow Soldiers Author:Ted Cruz
“When people are always telling you that you have to have a lot of women, women are very important, there's a chance that you might actually begin to observe them on a more fundamental level. Then you get so much focus that one day you might actually see. Dominican men are told to look at women all the time, but they're definitely not told to see them.” PeopleMenLooksImportantMightChanceLevelsFocusOne DayFundamentalsMen Women Author:Junot Diaz
“There's a real danger when people get distracted by peripheral issues. They get distracted by democracy building. They get distracted about military conflicts. We need to focus on defeating jihadism.” PeopleNeedsRealDemocracyIssuesFocusMilitaryDangerBuildingConflictDistracted Author:Ted Cruz
“It's funny because you do often read in recounts of very famous albums, people tend to focus on mistakes in really positive ways, and there's certain mistakes of my own that I always do find on every record that I needed to accept. I find it really interesting to talk about. I always write songs at the wrong tempos, and I have to learn to accept that a little bit.” PeopleWayWritingLittlesCertainSongBitsMy OwnInterestingMistakeAcceptingRecordsFocusNeededLittle BitAlbumsReally InterestingTempoVery FamousReally Positive Author:Zach Condon
“You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.” PeopleIfsImportantWholeFocusWhole LifePoisonWhat's Important Author:Martha Stewart
“Other people do better going on to grad school and others yet are naturally inclined and do just fine without any formal training at all. Everyone is different. The only things I think are imperative are focus, determination and hard work.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHardSchoolFocusHard WorkFineTrainingDeterminationFormalImperativesGradGrad SchoolEveryone Is Different Author:Toks Olagundoye
“Be sure of what you want, focus, work hard, be ready to pick yourself up, do not take rejection personally, be as prepared as you can, always be learning, and eliminate negative people from your life regardless of who they are.” PeopleWantHardFocusReadyHard WorkPicksNegativePreparedWhat You WantRejectionNegative PeoplePick Yourself Up Author:Toks Olagundoye
“A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.” PeopleIfsThinkingDifferentStarsChanceFocusHugePersonalityHollywoodCraftsLongevityOutlandish Author:Morris Chestnut
“I think that the best approach would be if the American people ever insist that we cut down on the massive amounts of money that moves into the campaigns from special interest groups, and if we resist publicly by saying "No more negative advertisements that destroy the reputations of one's opponents." In the meantime, just don't pay any attention to negative ads, if you can avoid them, and try to focus on the issues.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingWould BeMovingInterestPayAttentionIssuesFocusCuttingGroupsSpecialAmountApproachNegativeCampaignsReputationOpponentsMassiveAdsSaying NoAdvertisementsSpecial InterestsInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:Jimmy Carter
“I cannot tell you how many times guides have said to me, "Please tell them to stop praying to me. I can't make things happen. I can't protect them from going through challenging experiences. These are experiences their soul has chosen to go through. I'm here to keep them on their path, but I don't want them to give me all this attention or power or focus." Realistically, the guides I work with are really encouraging people to find their inner voice.” PeopleWantGivingSaidI CanSoulHappensVoiceChallengesAttentionPathFocusPrayingPleaseProtectGive MeGuidesThings HappenChosenInner VoiceMake Things Happen Author:Echo Bodine
“I find that it is useless to worry about things I can't control and I can't control how many people come out tonight. All I can do is focus on writing the best songs I can write and performing the best I can perform.” PeopleWritingI CanSongCan DoWorryFocusUselessPerformingTonight Author:Corey Smith
“I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.” PeopleWorldLittlesHandsEyeActionFocusMysteryJokesPhotographerFocusedSmokeHis EyesSmokingCigaretteLensesFrogsProminentHands UpSmoking CigarettesSmall WorldGinsberg Author:John Loengard
“You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.” PeopleWantKidsFallBlackFocusJudgingTreatsBe GoodHeritageGood PeopleJudgedFall Into Place Author:Kevin Hart
“It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantTryingHas BeensSaidSeemsIssuesFocusFootballInvolvedBlameCarefulAriseTwistsPlaying FootballBlame Me Author:Lionel Messi
“Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.” PeopleIfsWayWealthFocusTalentMissingFocusedMeaningfulBoatRecognitionSignificance Author:Ken Blanchard
“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
“When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.” PeopleWarFocusDyingEventsProtestMainstreamCoveragePuppetsPeople Dying Author:Mo Rocca
“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