Focus Quotes - Page 27

• It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos

  Political, Needs, Cooperation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Kids still like to laugh, kids still like the joy of learning. When you have a cool science experiment, I don't care where you're from. When you have that aha moment, whether you're in China or Kenya, that kid's eyes are gonna open up. So I really try to focus more on what we have in common than what differs us.

  Rafe Esquith

  Kids, Eye, Laughing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• The critical ingredient is a maverick mind. Focus on trading vehicles, strategies and time horizons that suit your personality. In a nutshell, it all comes down to: Do your own thing (independence); and do the right thing (discipline).

  Gil Blake

  Discipline, Personality, Independence

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• Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.

  Benjamin F Sullivan

  Love, Life, Beautiful

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• Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  Lovely, Needs, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

  Mary Harron

  Beating Yourself Up, No Point, Beating Yourself

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• During the season, it's a lot of maintaining your fitness, so in the winter time is when the main work is done. During the season, I just try to maintain my speed with different types of drills with my trainer. I also work on some muscles. If there's ever any injuries during races, then I'll focus a lot of my time on the muscle recovery.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Recovery, Winter, Race

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• As a soccer player, the goal isn't to be very bulky. It is more important to even your body out. Make sure your body is well rounded. You can't really focus on one area. Everything has to be balanced.

  Jozy Altidore

  Soccer, Player, Goal

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  People, Giving, Inspire

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

  Lenny Henry

  Voice, Technique, Posture

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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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• Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.

  Steve Case

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Philosophy

  "What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2011.

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• We should educate more women and girls. Because that is the surest route to controllably, manageably reducing the human population. Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it's not one thing that we need to focus on. It's everything all at once.

  Bill Nye

  Girl, Kids, Successful

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• I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.

  Gerry Lopez

  Believe, Common, Being The Best

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children became the main focus. I play a lot and my children play. Both my sons - my daughter's still too young really - have surpassed me with their music skills, which is wildly irritating.

  Paul Bettany

  Daughter, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like having too many projects in the pipeline. I like to focus on what's at hand.

  Jean Dujardin

  Hands, Pipeline, Projects

  Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that only the few will be saved and the many damned, have been shed, replaced by strummed guitars and saccharine smiles. It has reinvented itself so often, and with such breathtaking hypocrisy, in the interests of retaining its hold on the gullible, that a medieval monk who woke today, like Woody Allen's Sleeper, would not be able to recognise the faith that bears the same name as his own.

  A.C. Grayling

  Guitar, Names, Hypocrisy

  "Can an atheist be a fundamentalist?" by A. C. Grayling, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2006.

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• I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

  Missy Franklin

  Fun, Thinking, Numbers

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• A true leader helps people focus on their potential, not on their limitations.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  People, Leader, Helping

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• I focus most of my attention on Hillary Clinton and her disastrous policies. I mean, there's a real danger in this election. Electing Hillary Clinton in an era where we now are so pessimistic about the future, would double down on [Barack] Obama economics and a failed foreign policy - so most of my attention is about my record and about defeating Hillary Clinton.

  Jeb Bush

  Real, Mean, Attention

  "RNC chair blasts CNBC's 'crap sandwich' debate; Bush, Kasich call out GOP rivals". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2015.

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• It has been said by church historians that in those periods of Christian history where renewal, revival, and awakening took place and the church was at its strongest, that coincidental with those periods in church history, there was a strong focus on the psalms in the life of God's people-particularly in the worship of God's people.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Strong, People

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• To make the most of Christmas, focus on Christ.

  J. B. Priestley

  Christ

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• Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own.

  Pat Croce

  People, Goal, Mind

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• Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"

  Dennis Wholey

  Adventure, Loss, Negative

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