“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.” KnowsWayFirstsHeartMayMatterProblemSeemsMightCareSufferingFocusDevilFundamentalsDeeperWarningPeculiarDistractionSweatSensibleVolumeLogisticsObsessing Author:Merlin Mann
“I think people felt like they did everything they had been told they should do to fix the problem, and it still wasn't fixed. Then you have these other parts of Sudan, [which] in actual fact have been left on the back burner for way too long, so there was this scramble, probably a year ago now, to focus on the fact that this peace agreement was basically falling apart.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldYearsLongHas BeensStillsFactsProblemFallLeftFeltFocusYears AgoFixedAgreementFalling ApartSudanBack Burner Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“What we want is stability and security so we can focus on our own development. But we have these problems in our region, and nobody has been able to resolve them. The whole world was saying that the countries of the regions should step up and resolve their problems, so we stepped up.” WorldWantShouldHas BeensCountryWholeProblemAbleStepsFocusSecurityDevelopmentWhole WorldRegionsResolveStabilityStep Up Author:Adel al-Jubeir
“You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.” PersonsProblemFallFocusMaterialsSole Author:Antonio Damasio
“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
“One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.” PeopleIfsReasonProblemMovingEffortFocusPicksCapacityCancerSolveNecksBottlesTake Time Author:Joe Biden
“The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex, long-term problems like the climate crisis. Which brings me to my other major concern - the short-term focus of capitalism. It distorts the allocation of resources and the decision-making processes of companies.” LongProblemProcessTermDecisionCompanyFocusMajorsCapitalismResourcesConcernCrisisConstantDollarsClimateComplexesCampaignsLong TermAddressesDecision MakingShort TermWashington DcAllocationDecision Making Process Author:Al Gore
“We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts are not his ultimate focus. True, he cares about these things, but they're merely symptoms of the real problem.” HeartRealProblemCarePainRememberChristSinPovertyFocusPlansBrokenUltimateCoreRescueSymptomsReal Problems Author:Joni Eareckson Tada
“Gambling addicts usually lose their focus at work and problem military gambling poses a national security threat” ProblemLosesFocusSecurityMilitaryThreatGamblingNational SecurityAddict Author:John Warren Kindt
“It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actually give him an accurate analysis of the problem in L.A., because they're in it or at one point were a part of it, and now they're workin' to change it, and redirect the energy and the focus of it. And then consciously take steps to solve the problem.” PeopleIfsWantGivingProblemWould BeEnergyNumbersStepsOpinionFocusSolveBarackAnalysisAccurateGang Author:Nipsey Hussle
“Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old men. And, though my work doesn't focus much on good things, I see that period as America's heyday. True, we had many problems, like racism and Vietnam, but we still weren't quite as nuts as we seem to be now.” MenLooksStillsReasonProblemSeemsMightAmericaBornFocusYouthPeriodsRacismGood ThingsLook UpOld ManNutsVietnamFondnessHeyday Author:Donald Ray Pollock