“When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensSelfMatterHelpingAbleOpportunityIndividualResultsFocusSelf EsteemCircumstancesConversationYears AgoEsteemRealizationInterviewsFifteenDiscomfortAssignmentsMeasuringDoersFifteen YearsMetricsTailored Author:Clayton Christensen
“Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.” ThinkingWayYearsRunningTodayComedyFocusGroupsYears AgoPollsFocus Groups Author:Bob Newhart
“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
“My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. People are only glamorous if you don't see them. Like the movies used to make people years ago. There is something about people on screen that makes them so special; when you see them in person, they are so different and the whole illusion is gone.” PeopleIfsYearsPersonsIdeasDifferentWholeUsedGoneFocusSpecialIllusionYears AgoScreensGlamorous Author:Andy Warhol
“I think people felt like they did everything they had been told they should do to fix the problem, and it still wasn't fixed. Then you have these other parts of Sudan, [which] in actual fact have been left on the back burner for way too long, so there was this scramble, probably a year ago now, to focus on the fact that this peace agreement was basically falling apart.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldYearsLongHas BeensStillsFactsProblemFallLeftFeltFocusYears AgoFixedAgreementFalling ApartSudanBack Burner Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then was trying to stand up for a minority group that felt excluded and discriminated against, then I don't - I think that is a distortion of a person's record. I mean, a person's record is full, not just the parts that you want to use against them.” IfsThinkingWantTryingYearsMeanPersonsUseFeltRecordsFocusHappenedGroupsYears AgoMinoritiesDistortionExcludedMinority Groups Author:Keith Ellison
“I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn't a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now - in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community.” YearsLastsCertainCommunityReligiousIssuesFocusMovementAmountCoupleAreasYears AgoCatholicEnvironmentalProtestantsEvangelicalJewish CommunityReligious Community Author:Bill McKibben
“I actually started the whole project some years ago with a live debut at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. The focus was mainly on my favorite period of Billie Holiday, which was the late-50s Verve recordings, with essentially a small version of the Count Basie band.” YearsWholeFocusPeriodsBandProjectsLateYears AgoMy FavoriteVersionsHolidayDebutBrussels Author:Jose James
“I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of people's personal lives. That wasn't the focus. But also a lot of celebrities were bullied into revealing this breakup or tragedy or divorce or problem. They started to talk about it and the press just started to talk about people's private lives. That just seems to be the norm.” PeopleThinkingYearsProblemSeemsFocusMediaConcernYears AgoTragedyPressesDetailsDivorceBreakupMentalityPersonal LifeNormRevealingPrivate LifeBullied Author:Joan Jett
“It is quite widely known that I like shoes. This is not something that defines me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since.” YearsEyePartyKnownFocusFeetPoliticianPaperYears AgoShoesConservativeNewspapersPairsPrintHeelsPapersConferencesKittenLeopardsConservative PartyLeopard Print Author:Theresa May