Focus Quotes - Page 27

• I found out that I could not choose a subject, throw it out of focus, and then have a good picture. I found that I had to learn to see No-focus from the beginning.

  Ralph Eugene Meatyard

  Found, Subjects

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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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• Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they will tell you their own stories.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Technique, Doe, Needs

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• I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

  Lorna Simpson

  Details, Body, Sexuality

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• A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with it. There would be a strange cropping or one girl in focus and three out or a blur. But I would end up liking the mistakes and incorporating them into my work. And I became known for it.

  Deborah Turbeville

  Girl, Art, Mistake

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• If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He would focus much on programs and statistics. What the Savior would want to know is the condition of our heart. He would want to know how we love and minister to those in our care, how we show our love to our spouse and family, and how we lighten their daily load. And the Savior would want to know how you and I grow closer to Him and to our Heavenly Father.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Father, Heart

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• Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion, joy and peace, they will expand - not only in our own lives, but also into the world beyond.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Joy, Quality

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• Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you're guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things simultaneously, it messes up your neural circuits. Focus on one thing at a time.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mindfulness, Awareness, Excellent

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• The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

  Cheri Huber

  Quality, Attention, Determined

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• So, no matter what your personal aspiration, it is important to articulate it and implant it firmly in your heart and mind. Determined mental and emotional focus will invariably manifest the achievement of your desire more quickly than anything else.

  Dannion Brinkley

  Heart, Emotional, Achievement

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• It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk of] promoting enemy propaganda...we must talk about how the Taliban are using civilian shields and how the Taliban have harboured the terrorists responsible for killing close up to 5,000 innocent people.

  Walter Isaacson

  People, Risk, Enemy

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• There is ample evidence that the horrific events of Sept. 11 have been carefully manipulated to switch public focus from Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, who masterminded the Sept. 11th attacks, to Saddam Hussein, who did not.

  Robert Byrd

  Hussein, Als, Events

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• Just when I get my church all sorted out, sheep from the goats, saved from the damned, hopeless from the hopeful, somebody makes a move, get out of focus, cuts loose, and I see why Jesus never wrote systematic theology. So you and I can give thanks that the locus of Christian thinking appears to be shifting from North America and northern Europe where people write rules and obey them, to places like Africa and Latin America where people still know how to dance.

  William Henry Willimon

  Christian, Jesus, Latin

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• I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Thinking, Together, Musician

  "Beyoncé: artist of the decade". Interview With Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

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• I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed a job at Hot 97.

  Angie Martinez

  Mother, Jobs, New York

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• Through "deprogramming" or cult intervention the only issues that are addressed focus upon the specific group and group involvement. The subject of such an intervention subsequently may leave the group and go on with their life reassuming their own basic individual values and beliefs.

  Rick Ross

  Issues, Groups, Goes On

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• ... the job [at the Manhattan Institute] gives me a platform where I can focus on the themes that I explored in both Gusher of Lies and Power Hungry: that the myths about "green" energy are largely just that, myths; that hydrocarbons are here to stay; and that if we are going to pursue the best "no regrets" policy with regard to energy, then we should be avidly promoting natural gas and nuclear energy.

  Robert Bryce

  Jobs, Regret, Lying

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• Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.

  Urs Holzle

  Clouds, Google, Innovation

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• I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.

  Dave Douglas

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  "A Fireside Chat With Dave Douglas". All About Jazz interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. April 19, 2003.

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• The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music--it's the new baby--and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.

  Heather Headley

  Baby, Thinking, Years

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• I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

  Emily Haines

  Depressing, Children, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep their jobs, the need for rising wages, whether our children when they graduate from college can find a job, protecting the homeland, destroying ISIS, rebuilding defense. These are all the things that we need to focus on but we'll never get there if we're divided. We'll never get there if republicans and democrats just fight with one another.

  John Kasich

  Country, Jobs, Children

  CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• My total focus was on building up our military, building up our strength, building up our borders, making sure that China, Japan, Mexico, both at the border and in trade, no longer takes advantage of our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Military, Japan

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There are millions of peaceful Muslims across the world, in countries like India, where there is not the problems we are seeing in nations that are controlled - have territory controlled by Al Qaida or ISIS, and we should direct at the problem, focus on the problem, and defeat radical Islamic terrorism. It's not a war on a faith; it's a war on a political and theocratic ideology that seeks to murder us.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, War, Islamic

  CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• The USA Freedom Act expands that so now we have cell phones, now we have Internet phones, now we have the phones that terrorists are likely to use and the focus of law enforcement is on targeting the bad guys.

  Ted Cruz

  Phones, Cells, Law

  The fifth Republican debate, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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