Focus Quotes - Page 26

• Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Joy, Parent

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. July 16, 2003.

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• You try to break it down to weeks at a time otherwise you sort of make yourself crazy spinning out going from one....you just can't get your head around one of them fully. So I'm more task oriented. I like to sort of like focus on one thing for a couple of weeks...and also they're all in different stages of development.

  Justin Theroux

  Couple, Crazy, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other take in Sacramento in 1988 to serve as backgrounds to his cartoons. People don't draw it, all this crap, people don't focus attention on it because it's ugly, it's bleak, it's depressing... But, this is the world we live in; I wanted my work to reflect that, the background reality of urban life. )

  Robert Crumb

  Depressing, Reality, People

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• One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is sort of off. It's like it's so under the radar in a sense that you can cast whoever you want.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Want, Pressure, Film

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• On a good night, I'm just into the flow and seeing the pictures and words in my mind clearly before I say them. On a bad night, which to be honest are nowhere near as bad as when I was starting out, I just concentrate on performing the routines correctly. I focus on my delivery.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Good Night, Mind, Flow

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• My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.

  Kordell Stewart

  Always Trying, Energy, Calm

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• What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.

  Bruce Mau

  Attention, Buying, Selling

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• A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Hurt, Laughing, Groups

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• Love takes time. It's a process not a goal. Love is something that needs to be nurtured. But if there is one thing I urge you to start immediately it's focus on bringing out the best in each person on your team. When you love someone you want the best for him. You want him to shine. And the best way to do this is to help him discover the value inside him.

  Jon Gordon

  Team, Love Is, Goal

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• I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.

  Olivo Barbieri

  Color, Knowing Everything, Trying

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• [My] photos are often out of focus, rough, streaky, warped, etc. But if you think about it, a normal human being will in one day perceive an infinite number of images, and some of them are focused upon, others are barely seen out of the corner of one's eye.

  Daido Moriyama

  Eye, Thinking, Numbers

  Sandra S. Phillips, Daidō Moriyama, Alexandra Munroe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1999). “Daido Moriyama: stray dog”, San Francisco Museum

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• One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Party, Littles, Theory

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• You are all over the map, figure out the top 5 things you want to focus on and get rid of the rest.

  Steve Jobs

  Maps, Want, Figures

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• With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.

  Jerry Jones

  Team, California, Southern

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• If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.

  Stephen Covey

  Unconditional Love, Control Myself, Wife

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• The outlook on practice is we really have to prepare harder. We really have to focus harder on everything - we can't slack off. Any slacking off is going to put us behind.

  Darrion Scott

  Practice, Slacking, Outlook

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• Wrestling with work-life balance is a luxury when working to support a family is a necessity rather than a choice. I think that focus is only partially a result of these tough economic times. I think it also reflects a bit of "having it all fatigue": women are worn out from feeling the pressure to excel at work, and be the perfect mom at home.

  Willow Bay

  Mom, Wrestling, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Those of us who have gone through breast cancer treatment will say "yes" ..we absolutely need to focus on prevention. I never want my daughter to go through what I have gone through...never.

  Ravida Din

  Daughter, Cancer, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.

  Nina Jacobson

  People, Trying, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads.

  Megan Griffiths

  Creating, Depth, Resonance

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.

  Amy Ziering

  Should Have, People, Ambitious

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.

  Amanda Ripley

  Worst Moments, People, Brain

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, People

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Sex, Long, Want

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

  Mark Hart

  Couple, Heart, Humility

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