“You see, I'm a believer in the rhapsodic. I like things that are happy. For no particular reason, I just like them. Most people don't seem to be like that in this particular place, in this world. You can tell by what they focus on. Read a newspaper, watch a TV show, go to a movie, look at a life.” PeopleWorldInspirationalLooksReasonShowsSeemsWatchesFocusThis WorldParticularInspirational LifeTvsBuddhismBelieverNewspapersTv Shows Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.” IfsWorldLooksCountryReasonNextPracticeFocusEnvironmentalAround The WorldWorriedMealsOver YouShelter Author:John S. Watson
“As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.” KnowsReasonHelpingKidsAbleSchoolPovertyFocusHigh SchoolFoundationRateValuableFrustrationJoblessConsistentlyJust BeingUnemploymentHopelessnessNo HopeDriftingHarnessFreshmanWrong Direction Author:Tim Scott
“We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.” PersonsReasonFocusAppreciateDislikePositive Relationship Book:Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement Source: Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement
“When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad.” InspirationalMayPersonsReasonHappensFacesAsksChallengesTeachFocusLessonsTestsComplainingThings HappenEverything Happens For A ReasonHappens For A Reason Author:Rita Zahara
“On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.” WantFeelsShouldImportantReasonUseHandsRealityGivenEnjoyAbilityFocusExerciseHealthyTensionActivistVocation Author:Wolfgang Tillmans
“I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.” ThinkingWorldReasonCommonFocusTaughtCoreReason WhyFixing Author:Eve Ensler
“For me, my core focus has always been to help others so what drives me to keep doing this is the fact that I can continue to learn to coach others such as yourself. You might not be a fitness trainer, or maybe you are, but you need to find that CORE reason that will keep you going forever.” NeedsI CanReasonFactsHelpingMightForeverFocusCoachesCoreHelping OthersTrainers Author:Scott Herman
“With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.” LooksReasonFocusGroupsTeamCaliforniaAttractiveSouthernFlavorInitialsVery PopularRamsSouthern CaliforniaFocus Groups Author:Jerry Jones
“The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.” PeopleIfsTryingHumansLongReasonProblemMovingDifficultTechnologyTakenFocusAchieveIndustrySolutionsMoving ForwardExpensiveKeep TryingRoboticsHuman Problems Author:Colin Angle
“Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.” WritingMindPersonsReasonPlayWholeAbilityFocusVisualsSlipsWhole Person Author:N.D. Wilson
“President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.” HumansReasonPresidentInterestFocusPlanetsOughtResourcesRedCompellingMarsProposalPresident BushIntriguingCompelling Reason Author:Jay Inslee
“Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists.” ReasonHelpingLawFocusDrugProgramPressureWorkersCriminalsTerroristAgentsBordersOfficialsTemporaryLaw EnforcementEnforcementDealerWrong ReasonsDrug DealersBorder Patrol Author:Scott McClellan
“If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.” IfsReasonOrderImaginationFocusDeeperIrrationalRetreatLensesWorldviewGrasping Author:Alister E. McGrath
“I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very rarely listen to my music or even read things that I might've said.” LooksSaidReasonMightAttentionFocusVideoUncomfortable Author:Cecile McLorin Salvant
“The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.” BookReasonEnoughLightBitsDarkSpaceCasesTakenFocusSubjectsPhotographAvailableGenderErasReason WhySparesTorchesCorridors Author:Derek Ridgers
“In order to handle emotional pain I cry. I vent. I zone out in front of the TV to escape. Then, after I allow myself to feel it and be human, I try my best to put things in perspective and start moving forward again. I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.” FeelsTryingHumansReasonHappensPainPastRememberMovingOrderBeliefStruggleFocusFrontsCryEmotionalTvsPerspectiveBlessingThings HappenHandleMoving ForwardZoneMy PastEmotional PainEverything Happens For A ReasonHappens For A ReasonMy Blessing Author:Trista Sutter
“So the difference between most books about love and Love For No Reason is that traditional love books focus on love as a stream of energy between two people, whereas this book focuses on love as a deep state of being that you can live in no matter what's going on in your life.” PeopleTwoBookMatterStatesReasonEnergyDifferencesFocusAnd LoveNo Matter WhatTraditionalStreamsNo Reason Author:Marci Shimoff
“I will sing their praises, I'll sing Donald's [Trump] praises and Marco's [Rubio] praises and everybody else's praises. But I'm going to keep the focus on substance and records. And there's a reason why they scream "Liar." Because when you point to their own records, their own voting records, their own words, they don't like their records because their records are inconsistent with what they're running on.” ReasonRunningRecordsFocusTrumpPraiseSubstanceReason WhyVotingLiarsScreamInconsistentMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.” IfsWayLittlesI CanReasonFactsActorsRoomsFocusFrontsListeningSittingNotesScriptsPhonesSurroundingsDistracted Author:Adam Reed
“Bealer has a number of reasons for thinking that a naturalistic epistemology is self-undermining. Let me focus on one of these. (I've tried to take on all of them in the first chapter of Knowledge and Its Place in Nature.)” ThinkingFirstsSelfReasonNumbersFocusLet MeChaptersEpistemologyUndermining Author:Hilary Kornblith
“I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.” ThinkingWayLongI CanImportantIdeasReasonSoundSilenceEnvironmentFocusPeriodsQuietSettingSettingsParadoxComposingLong Periods Of TimeSilence Love Author:Tod Machover
“The historical resonances are sharp. [Louis] Brandeis is nominated on Jan. 28, 1916. Confirmed on June 1. Waits 125 days between nomination and confirmation, which remains an unbroken record, although Merrick Garland will surpass it in July, if my math is right. Anti-Semitism was definitely not the central reason for the opposition, which tended to focus more on his anti-corporate radicalism, but it was a theme.” IfsReasonWaitingRecordsFocusRemainsHistoricalMathCorporateThemeOppositionJuneJulyResonanceAnti SemitismNominationsUnbrokenConfirmationGarlandsRadicalismLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.” ReasonHappensPastRememberBeliefStruggleFocusBlessingThings HappenMy PastEverything Happens For A ReasonHappens For A ReasonMy Blessing Author:Trista Sutter
“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
“I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.” IfsThinkingBelieveReasonAsksRolesFocusTeamLeaving Author:Pat Summitt
“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
“It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.” ReasonFactsSexFocusObjectsCivilizationWomen Beauty Author:Hugh Hefner