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“I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.”

“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.”

Thinking Trying Play Character Emotion Focus Shame Relate Frustration Load Soup Helplessness Unfamiliar Psycho Unfairness

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.”

Way Trying Different Character Stories Shows Happens Lasts Focus Stage Including Stressed Syllables I'm Back Vowels Consonants

Author:Ron Rash

“I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.”

Trying Focus Player Decided Guitar Rhythm Neglected Guitar Player

Author:Hal Sparks

“I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.”

Trying Might Next Wonder Focus End Times Spend Time

Author:Trisha Yearwood

“Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Sometimes Hard Bigs Happens Song Next Interesting Focus Bridges Sections Bass Sketchy

Author:Ryan Adams

“You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.”

Trying Problem Running Fear Focus Fields Football Asking Defense Hardest Defenders Football Field

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.”

People Trying Kind Seems Lost Common Gone Study Focus One Thing Presses Edges Tabloids Bad Press

Author:Cory Monteith

“I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.”

Trying Soul Dark Too Much Focus Share Dark Days

Author:Annie Lennox

“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.”

Trying Mean Stills Real Done Eye Song Behinds Focus Band Thoughtful

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Are we gonna just make movies about trying to get laid over and over again or focus on something that's more relevant?”

Trying Focus Relevant Getting Laid

Author:Seth Rogen

“Reduce risk, lower your required capital, and focus on what you’re really good at—and hire others for what you are not.) This is something you should think about in any business: don’t try to do everything. You aren’t the best at everything. Find out where you have an advantage and stick to that.”

Thinking Should Trying Focus Risk Advantage Sticks

Book:Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out

Source: Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out

“Don't worry about trying to impress people... Just focus on how you can add value to their lives.”

People Inspirational Trying Values Attitude Worry Focus Add Impress

Author:Hal Elrod

“Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.”

Trying Important Situation Focus Our Lives Wake Up Busy Manage Making Time Waking Up Early

Book:The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

Source: The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

“And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears, and something starts to hum inside my head. Far off, voices try to bump up against me, but I repel them. My ears fill up with water and I focus on the humming in my head.”

World Trying Feelings Voice Water Attention Focus Ears Disappear Curious Emptiness Detachment Numb Bumps Numbness Humming

Book:Madness: A Bipolar Life

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“I try to not focus on what people expect from me.”

People Trying Focus

Author:Lady Gaga

“Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do because it involves so many characters. But, again, you dont need to know all the details. Obviously the mainstays are there Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and heavily focused on. There are a ton of great characters, and a lot happens to them over the course of Infinite Crisis . Some change and evolve, others fall, but it really is about trying to bring everybody on stage. We probably have 90 percent of the DCU showing up, if not more but without losing focus on what the story is.”

“We have never worried about numbers. In the marketplace, Apple is trying to focus the spotlight on products, because products really make a difference. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.”

People Trying Speak Numbers Focus Products Worried Apples Making A Difference Spotlight

Author:Steve Jobs

“As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life. I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.”

Trying Littles Important Stories Wish Chance Focus Missing News Sells Everyday Photograph Glad Magazines Emerging Exclusion Photojournalists Yourself Short

Author:David Burnett

“You're more likely to slip up when you're trying to accomplish your goals by yourself. It may be that you don't have an outer support system in place to help you maintain focus and provide the external encouragement everyone needs.”

Needs Trying May Helping Goal Support Focus Encouragement Accomplish Slips Support Systems Accomplish Your Goals

Author:Lauren Mackler

“Give yourself a compliment every day. I know this sounds silly, but it really is important. As girls, we spend countless hours focusing on our flaws and trying to correct them or cover them up. It's essential to focus on something you like about yourself. Maybe you're having a good hair day or your skin is looking especially healthy. Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does.”

Knows Giving Trying Looks Doe Important Moments Girl Sound Hours Focus Hair Healthy Essentials Skins Silly Each Day Flaws Compliment About Yourself Bangs Good Hair

Author:Lauren Conrad

“If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.”

Ifs Trying Helping Use Causes Focus Fame Good Causes

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.”

People Trying Teach Focus Everyday Everyday Life

Author:Joel Osteen

“When you make comedy, you make it for the people and you try to have as many screenings and as many tests and you do focus groups and you read the cards and you try to give the people what they want in this comedy.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.”

Trying Jobs Focus

Author:Zachary Quinto

“You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.”

Needs Trying Ends Energy Focus Impossible Please Waste The End Of The Day Make You Happy

Author:Lauren Conrad

“[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.”

“I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.”

Thinking Feels Trying Art Culture Views Focus Alive Happened Right Now Nostalgia Lenses Sentimentality Undermining Invigorating Art And Culture Disheartening Happy To Be Alive

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“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.”

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Author:Lou Reed

“There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.”

People Trying Important Done Enough Successful Focus Tasks Lists Being Successful Successful People Enough Time

Author:Brian Tracy

“My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.”

Trying Hands Games Focus Approach Erase

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.”

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Author:Sakyong Mipham

“Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.”

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Author:Russell Wilson

“I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Would Be Too Much Focus Risk One Thing Being The Best Sensible Focus On One Thing

Author:Doc Brown

“I think experimentation with other stuff is great. My real focus has been more-so trying to create a sound that I can build upon and get really comfortable with. I think almost everything is experimentation 'til you find what it is that your sound is.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens I Can Real Stuff Sound Focus Comfortable Get Real Experimentation

Author:Hoodie Allen

“I have always thought of poetry as an act of celebration. Just by nature of writing a poem you are taking the time to dwell on whatever it is that you're writing about...you can be celebrating anger, you can be celebrating sorrow... you are spending the time to focus and observe and try to understand the various parts of being human.”

Writing Trying Humans Focus Sorrow Various Spending Celebrate Celebration Being Human

Author:Sarah Kay

“I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.”

Trying Certain Focus Style Weight Muscles Lifting Contractions Contracting

Author:Ronnie Coleman

“Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.”

“You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.”

Trying Art Energy Term Focus Talent Creating

Author:Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

“I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's.”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.”

Thinking Knows Trying Enough Careers Worry Focus Materials Fuel Departure

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.”

Trying Mind Enough Body Pain Moving Pleasure Focus Comfortable Secure Grasping

Author:Byron Katie

“Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and I was really just trying to focus on like as much cardio as possible because in this film I do a lot of running and a lot of running in 100 degree heat in Austinit was like a sprintit was very much like all one shot running around, sprinting. So I had to build up my cardio to be able to get to that place and also not to like, die.”

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Author:Cobie Smulders

“I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.”

Trying Artist Challenges Quality Roles Focus Involved Findings Productions Mediums Get Involved Intriguing Format

Author:Brian J. White

“Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.”

Trying Remember Focus Wall Built Bricks

Author:Will Smith

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.”

Ifs Trying Different Enough Lasts Film Moving Challenges Attention Too Much Focus One Thing Last Time Criteria Always Trying

Author:Queen Latifah

“I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.”

Trying I Can Play Interest Acting Focus Scene Mediocre

Author:Neil Diamond

“By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.”

People World Trying Littles Country Helping Focus Thirds Unhappy Serving Feeding Helping People Third World Third World Countries Trying To Be Happy

Author:Ram Dass

“Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.”

Trying Values Lines Focus Essentials Add Bottom Bottom Line Distracted

Author:Carlos Slim

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