“In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.” MenWishFocusMissingThreatVanityLurkingHidden Meaning Author:David Hewson
“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?” IfsShouldStillsImportantGrowthTermFocusMissingAskingDecadesImportant Questions Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“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.” TryingLittlesImportantStoriesWishChanceFocusMissingNewsSellsEverydayPhotographGladMagazinesEmergingExclusionPhotojournalistsYourself Short Author:David Burnett
“The relative ease of most driving lures us into thinking we can get away with doing other things. Indeed, those other things, like listening to the radio, can help when driving itself is threatening to cause fatigue. But we buy into the myth of multitasking with little actual knowledge of how much we can really add in or, as with the television news, how much we are missing. As the inner life of the driver begins to come into focus, it is becoming clear not only that distraction is the single biggest problem on the road but that we have little concept of just how distracted we are.” ThinkingLittlesHelpingProblemCausesClearFocusMissingTelevisionListeningBecomingNewsConceptsAddRadioMythDrivingEaseGet AwayDriversDistractionRelativeThreateningFatigueDistractedInner LifeLureMultitaskingMulti TaskingTelevision News Author:Tom Vanderbilt
“I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.” ThinkingSelfMomentsUsedFocusMissingCaughtCaught UpOld Self Author:Steve Gleason
“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
“Most organizations only focus on WHAT they do and HOW they do it - tactics and strategies - and they aren't even aware that this thing called the WHY exists. Focusing on only two pieces of a three piece puzzle leaves an organization, or a career, inherently out of balance. Being out of balance, only operating on two of the three pieces, shows up in different ways - increased stress, loss of passion, obsession with what your competition is doing, being forced to play the price game, trouble differentiating. These are all signs that the WHY is missing.” WayTwoDifferentPlayShowsPassionThreeGamesLossCareersFocusPiecesTroubleMissingBalanceOrganizationStressStrategyCompetitionObsessionDifferent WaysPuzzlesTacticsTactics And Strategy Author:Simon Sinek
“[The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.” LittlesGamesBitsToo MuchFocusWeekMissingCoupleBasketballLittle BitPreparationNutsBoltsNuts And BoltsGame Day Author:Vince Kehres
“Gardeners often focus exclusively on plants, missing the absolutely essential visual role played by structures, from paths to pavilions.” RolesPathFocusMissingEssentialsStructurePlantVisualsGardener Author:Janet Macunovich
“We need to focus our attention on Iran, because if you miss Iran, you are not going to get ISIS. The two are inextricably connected because one causes the other.” IfsNeedsTwoCausesAttentionFocusMissingConnectedIranIsis Author:Chris Christie
“I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.” YearsFocusMissingCoupleBandYears AgoHip HopProducersHipsParksHopsRapperMinorsStraight UpFortsLinkin Park Author:Mike Shinoda
“Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.” PeopleIfsWayWealthFocusTalentMissingFocusedMeaningfulBoatRecognitionSignificance Author:Ken Blanchard
“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
“We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can't have, what we don't want and what's missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.” WantBigsAttentionFocusOur LivesMissingLifetimeContemplatingHunk Author:Wayne Dyer
“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
“When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.” PeopleWorldWayHardWholeHandsThreeAbilityWhiteIssuesFocusMediaDogMissingTvsAdvantagePoliceWhole WorldActivistCastingBullsTanksFragmentedNbcNew Media Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.” WantKindPlayShowsFocusMissingTempoSold Out Author:Vince Staples
“I've had somebody say, "I want you at my wedding, but I don't want you to pull focus, so wear jeans!" Losing my anonymity is something that's proving to be very challenging.... It's good for your soul to walk around unnoticed; there's so much you can't do when everybody knows who you are. And I so miss those little things.” KnowsWantLittlesSoulChallengesWalksFocusMissingProveLosingWho You AreYour SoulLittle ThingsI Want YouJeansAnonymityUnnoticed Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“When everybody else is in a down market is focusing on what they're doing wrong, instead focus on what you should be doing differently, it may be that what you did in the past was perfectly right. It is possible to do all the right things in business and still have a business crisis because of what's happening in the external environment. And if you start focusing on mistakes only, you're going to miss opportunities.” PastOpportunityMistakeEnvironmentFocusMissingCrisisRight Thing Author:Paul Saffo