“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” ThinkingLifeInspirationalTryingStillsDreamMotivationalSuccessMotivationHopeFearFocusAchieveInspirational LifeFailureSucceedConcernEncouragementCatholicLive LifeYour DreamsAspirationBeing SuccessfulFrustrationPotentialSuccess In LifeFollow Your DreamsNo FearKey To SuccessRoad To SuccessFear Of FailureRecipe For SuccessOvercoming FearChase Your DreamsDreams Do Come TrueHopes And DreamsHopes And FearsVatican IiLiving The DreamDreams And AspirationsFear NoneHopes DreamsFailure Is Not An OptionUntapped PotentialUnfulfilled DreamsFrustration In LifeUnfulfilled Potential Author:Pope John XXIII
“I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something like compassion, on getting people to care more for others without putting ourselves in their shoes.” PeopleThinkingShouldCareDecisionCompassionMoralFocusShoesEngagementDiscouragingMoral Decisions Author:Paul Bloom
“I've been to acting school and I think that at the end of the day, when you just focus on the work and you're comfortable with who you are, that at some point someone's going to recognize your talent and give you an opportunity.” ThinkingGivingEndsSchoolOpportunityActingFocusTalentComfortableWho You AreThe End Of The Day Author:Viola Davis
“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
“Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.” IfsThinkingWayLittlesIdeasMomentsHelpingBigsUsedThreeBitsPerfectAttentionFocusMeditationMinutesCarLittle BitSittingBreatheThese DaysInwardPerfectionist Author:Renee Marino
“I love Bikram Yoga. I tend to move and think at a fast pace, and the heat forces me to slow down and just focus on my breath. I'm also a fan of Kundalini yoga. It's still a new practice for me, but I've found it infinitely helpful in getting me present.” ThinkingStillsMovingFoundForcePracticeFocusFansYogaBreathsDown AndHeatHelpfulPaceSlow DownBikramBikram Yoga Author:Allison McAtee
“I hit my knees every morning and every night to give thanks for being alive and all the blessings I have. And in the middle of chaos, it's been suggested to me to stop and truly look around, notice the sky, the trees, the grass, and realize you're part of it all, which is hard when you really want to focus on what you think is bothering you. However, one of the smartest things I do is check in with my awesome wife, who is really good at screwing my head back on when needed.” ThinkingWantGivingLooksHardNightRealizingMorningFocusAliveWifeTreeSkyMiddleNeededBlessingChaosChecksThanksBotherGrassKneesEvery NightEvery MorningBothering You Author:Patrick Fabian
“I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages.” ThinkingTryingFocusEasierPagesStorytelling Author:Jim Lee
“I feel like people focus too much on what other people think of their lives and trying to appear like they have it all together rather than focusing on just being happy. You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health. Genuine happiness is hard to miss.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingMatterHardTogetherGrowthToo MuchFocusMissingPerceptionPersonal GrowthGenuineJust BeingGenuine HappinessPerception Of Others Author:Melanie Iglesias
“I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.” ThinkingFocusDiseaseCancer Author:Laurie Glimcher
“I do think we lost some of the focus on the attacks in San Bernardino and focused on a plan that isn't really a plan and is never going to happen.” ThinkingHappensLostFocusPlansFocused Author:Marco Rubio
“In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindMatterActorsCasesFocusWorstReturnDrugTaxesInstanceRoutineEnforcementGangDealerIrsDrug DealersTax Returns Author:Mark Krikorian
“Young guys should focus on maintaining their football position. Coaches always say the lowest guy wins. I'm a taller guy and a bigger guy, but because I'm always in a great football position is why I think I'm able to get away from guys still. It gives me a chance to recover.” ThinkingGivingShouldStillsAbleYoungGuyWinningChanceFocusPositionFootballBiggerGive MeCoachesGet AwayLowestMaintainingGreat FootballYoung GuysGive Me A Chance Author:Brandon Spikes
“If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.” IfsThinkingBookStuffStudyFocusInformationSucceedKnowledge Is Power Author:Richard Sherman
“By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.” ThinkingKnowsStillsI CanDoneAbleJobsFocusGraceGrace Of GodBuckles Author:Ginuwine
“In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because I think he misdescribes the importance of the deaths of others and focuses exclusively on my relation to my own death. But, in reality, the deaths of others have a more urgent and immediate impact on our lives than the purely notional knowledge that I too will one day die.” ThinkingRealityDiesTermMy OwnFocusOur LivesOne DayArgumentImportanceRelationRegardImpactUrgentHeidegger Author:George Pattison
“Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual consciousness in which profound struggles about identity and direction arise - struggles that Mann himself had not only reflected on but felt keenly. Visconti takes up this central focus of the novella, but he couples it with a more social perspective.” ThinkingKindAgeIndividualSocialFeltConsciousnessStruggleFocusIdentityPerspectiveCoupleProfoundArisePortraits Author:Philip Kitcher
“My own show with Sterling Ruby, for example, seems like such a huge disconnection from Dior couture, but then I think, yeah, in both collections there was a very strong focus on the human hand and the actual work of people making garments. So in that sense, they were completely related. But I didn't realize that during the process.” PeopleThinkingHumansShowsHandsSeemsStrongProcessRealizingMy OwnFocusExampleHugeYeahRelatedCollectionsVery StrongGarmentsRubiesCoutureDisconnectionSterlingHuman HandsDior Author:Raf Simons
“Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEnoughFacesCompanyEnvironmentToo MuchFocusRiskExecutionCompetitorsHandful Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“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
“For one thing, I think that there are questions which philosophers raise which, although science bears on them, are not typically the central focus of those who work in the sciences. At the same time, I don't have a view of philosophy which marks it out as different in kind from scientific work” ThinkingKindDifferentPhilosophyViewsFocusOne ThingBearsMarkRaisesPhilosopher Author:Hilary Kornblith
“I've always been making original music. I think that when I sat down with Losing Focus, I approached it different. I had a clearer understanding of who I was talking to, because I was able to go out and tour and see them right in front of me. I wanted to speak to them and speak about this lifestyle.” ThinkingDifferentAbleWantedSpeakUnderstandingTalkingFocusFrontsLosingOriginalsLifestyleSatOriginal MusicLosing Focus Author:Young De
“I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is a focus on what's going on between people and relationships. I think so much is happening in the world at the moment, so many changes politically and culturally, writers are writing about that.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantWritingPlayMomentsFocusMessagesHappeningsCommunicate Author:Sean Mahon
“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
“I hate that our brains are wired that way. You don't remember the people that raved about us or just said something nice - I don't know why that's not in us to focus on *that*. But I think it takes a conscious effort to train our minds to change that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayMindSaidRememberHateEffortBrainFocusNiceConsciousI HateTrain Author:Khloe Kardashian
“I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.” ThinkingWritingTryingForceDifficultCreativeFocusLifestyleWriting Music Author:Alan Palomo
“I think religious freedom is part of the U.S.'s policy and Congress mandated the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. So it is important that the U.S. focus in dialogue, development projects, cooperation with Pakistan and other countries to give more importance to religious freedom issues.” ThinkingGivingImportantCountryReligiousIssuesFocusPolicyCreationDevelopmentProjectsImportanceInternationalCongressDialogueCooperationOther CountriesPakistanReligious Freedom Author:Shahbaz Bhatti
“Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they virtually ignored manufacturing. I think of lot of the troubles of the 1970s and 1980s, and now more recently the 2000s can be traced pretty directly to the biases of the business schools.” ThinkingSchoolFocusTroubleOrganizationFinanceIgnoredTopicsManufacturingSuitableBusiness SchoolBlackboard Author:Charles R. Morris
“Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.” PeopleThinkingInspirationalSportsWorryFocusConcentrating Author:Bobby Jones
“I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantShouldStuffFocusMy WayWho We Are Author:Conor McGregor
“We just worked hard to not just get things right and authentic, but also to make it consistent and visually right. For instance, there are colours that aren't in the film that would have been there in reality. I think part of the look of the film not only has to do with the way it's shot and lit, but also the lack of certain colours that give it a softness which really suits it because there's more focus on the characters. For instance, there's no yellow at all until we get to Miss Stubbs' flat at the very end.” ThinkingWayGivingLooksHas BeensEndsHardCharacterRealityFilmCertainFocusMissingShotsInstanceSuitsColourConsistentFlatsYellowLitSoftness Author:Lone Scherfig
“I think a much better use of time and resources is to really focus on your existing users or customers and figure out what changes can you make in the Web site, the service, the product, whatever, to get them to come back more often to generate that repeat business and once you kind of figure out that formula, then when you get new customers the whole thing just kind of grows exponentially.” ThinkingKindWholeUseGrowsFocusFiguresProductsResourcesCustomersRepeatsFormulasUsersSiteUse Of Time Author:Tony Hsieh
“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
“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.” IfsThinkingWritingIdeasAttentionFocusPaperToolsExcellentConcentrationPencilsFocus And ConcentrationPaper And Pencil Author:Michael LeBoeuf
“For Joe Budden fans, and for Joe Budden, I like to focus on the creative side, and havin' a thought and bein' able to execute it in the booth. I think that song best displays me being able to do that.” ThinkingAbleSongSidesCreativeFocusFansDisplay Author:Joe Budden
“I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.” ThinkingKindChristianityCasesFocusLet MeExpertsOrganizedOrganized Religion Author:John Shelby Spong
“Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus.” ThinkingActingPathFocusDisciplineNarrow Path Author:Juliette Lewis
“'7th Heaven' was a big ensemble cast, so everyone would get a turn. Basically, I'd get a script that focused on my character and think, 'Oh, I'm working every day this week.' The mindset was I've got more to do, so I had to focus.” ThinkingCharacterBigsTurnsHeavenFocusWeekScriptsCastsMindsetFocusedEnsemble7th Heaven Author:Tyler Hoechlin
“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
“My prediction is that in the same way that Google is an intent revealing service that can be monetized that way, I would think that if I were at Twitter, I would focus on the search aspect of Twitter, because people are revealing intents when they do a search.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFocusAspectGooglePredictionsRevealing Author:Jason Kilar
“Climate change has always been sort of my main focus. I think also with [what happened in Fukushima, Japan] there's still a lot to think about in terms of what's coming down the pike into the world's oceans, too.” ThinkingWorldStillsTermFocusHappenedOceanClimateClimate ChangeJapanFukushima Author:Rufus Wainwright
“I think integrative medicine, something I've pioneered, is the way of the future. Its great promise is that it can reduce healthcare costs by shifting the whole focus of healthcare away from disease management to health promotion and prevention. They can do that two ways: first, by focusing attention on lifestyle medicine, which is very deficient. And second, by bringing into the mainstream treatments that are lower cost because they are not dependent on expensive technology.” ThinkingWayFirstsTwoWholeCan DoAttentionTechnologyFocusPromiseCostDiseaseManagementMedicineLifestyleExpensiveDependentTreatmentHealthcareMainstreamPromotionShiftingTwo WaysPreventionHealth Promotion Author:Andrew Weil
“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
“If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else.” IfsThinkingDoneGuyNextSidesFocusStreetsCriticismMajorityConcentrating Author:Grant Bowler
“Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me.” ThinkingNeedsMovingFormOrderGivenFocusMy FamilyThese DaysInsanityEfficientLooking Back Author:Grant Bowler
“I've had very little negative pushback. I think people in the Senate know that I have believed, for a number of years, and have been outspoken that we need to listen to what the American people are telling us, and we need to focus more on the well-being of people who make lower wages, $50,000 and below.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsYearsWellsLittlesHas BeensNumbersFocusNegativeWell BeingSenateWagesOutspoken Author:Jeff Sessions
“A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint and knowing what we want to build, it's not how it's supposed to be built, but what we want to build. I think it makes everything easy for us to stay focus and have that tunnel vision.” PeopleThinkingWantEasyVisionKnowingFocusBuildingBuiltSupposed To BePhasesTunnelsBlueprintsTunnel Vision Author:B.J. The Chicago Kid
“Before you have kids, you just have much less to worry about. It doesn't feel that way, but it's true. Once you have kids, your focus has to change, I think, at least to raise kids right. You can't just focus on yourself; it's too hard.” ThinkingWayFeelsHardKidsWorryFocusRaisesFocus On Yourself Author:Christopher Gorham
“If you are a good communicator, be unique: put yourself in your own commercials and do something a little different. To the extent you can focus on what it is you want to change, what it is you know how to change, and what it is you think will make life better for other people, you're going to do better.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantLittlesDifferentKnow HowFocusUniqueCommunicators Author:Roger Ailes
“The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think by temperament he is unqualified to be president. I think his views - you have a guy who's running for president who rejects science, doesn't even believe climate change is real, let alone wants to do something about it, wants to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of one percent.” ThinkingWantGivingMindBelieveDoeTwoRealStatesRunningGuyPresidentUnitedViewsBreakUnited StatesFocusTrumpTaxesPercentDollarsClimateClimate ChangeBillionsRejectsTemperamentUnqualifiedTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders