“I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.” PeopleIfsEndsStuffFocusBecomingMessagesWho You AreDesperateAppreciatedBumperStickerBumper StickerBeing Appreciated Author:Rick Owens
“The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.” ArtPoetryFocusObjectsMessagesFunctionFundamentalsSakePoeticPromotingDichotomy Author:Roman Jakobson
“Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.” WayFeelsSelfHelpingUniverseChurchPowerfulMoralFocusGenerationsMissingSelf HelpSixMessagesEmptyOvercomingRaisedSevenDebtLustWorking ItFeel BetterTranscendenceMy GenerationOmniscientPowerful God Author:Matt Chandler
“I don't pay attention. I don't read stuff or message boards because you definitely get affected. You can read a hundred great comments, amazing comments, and have one bad one and that is all you can focus on and it wrecks your day. It says something about negativity and how it draws us somehow.” StuffPayAttentionFocusMessagesDrawsHundredPay AttentionBoardsAffectedCommentNegativityWrecks Author:Joan Jett
“If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.” IfsMindI CanNamesRoomsFocusDoorsQuietMessagesCatConnectingYelling Author:Bernie Siegel
“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
“I focus more on the music and my message; I'm not a party type of guy.” GuyPartyFocusTypeMessagesType Of Guy Author:Roger Miret
“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
“My focus is on the reader and that the poet's job is not to inspire himself or herself. The poet's job is to inspire some future reader. And so, as a reader you have a task to do in finding those bottles and opening up the messages and experiencing what's in them inside of yourself.” JobsFocusInspirePoetReaderFindingsMessagesTasksOpeningBottlesOpening Up Author:Edward Hirsch
“The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.” PersonsLevelsCitiesFocusViolenceHappenedTypeTrumpMessagesHappeningsMurderThings HappenPushingChicagoAmerican CitiesStrollers Author:Chris Christie
“The focus of President Trump's administration will continue to be to have a safer America, to have a more prosperous America, and to continue to advance the president's agenda, both on Capitol Hill and through executive action and carry that message all across the country.” CountryActionAmericaPresidentFocusTrumpMessagesAdministrationHillsAgendasExecutivesProsperousCapitolCapitol Hill Author:Mike Pence