Focus Quotes - Page 33

• We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Two, Worry, Week

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I've always thought that if my death was imminent, I would read. When I can't focus on a book, I tend to keep reading the same page. My guess is, I would've read, like the first page of Nicholas Nickleby over and over again.

  Paula Poundstone

  Book, Reading, Pages

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• I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.

  Julio Cortazar

  Expression, Cameras, Essentials

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• Sometimes the only solution is figuring out a bigger problem to focus on.

  Dane Cook

  Sometimes, Problem, Bigger

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2013

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• It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest.

  Branford Marsalis

  Intellectual, Culture, Magazines

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• Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of the Eurozone and therefore the shape of the EU itself. Opportunities to advance our national interest are clearly becoming apparent. We should focus on how to make the most of this, not pursue a parliamentary process for a multiple choice referendum.

  David Cameron

  Opportunity, Multiple Choice, Choices

  House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 24, 2011.

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• There are times when you get frustrated, but the one thing you always focus on is treating people well. You just cannot storm off and freak out.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Frustrated, Storm

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

  Joseph Kosinski

  Thinking, Important, Storyline

  Source: collider.com

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• Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.

  Amanda Schull

  Giving Up, Passion, Adults

  Source: collider.com

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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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• One of the drivers of heroin has been the misuse of pain medication. If we're gonna deal with heroin and heroin use in the United States, we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the prescription drug use issue.

  Michael Botticelli

  Pain, Drug Use, Issues

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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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• I've been writing for myself since I was a teenager - I got into top-lining for some other artists/producers, but the focus was always on my own stuff.

  LIZ

  Teenager, Writing, Artist

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• I'm not aiming for a knockout. I focus on doing my best. If the knockout comes, fine. If not, that's okay.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Knockouts, Fine, Okay

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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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• 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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• I enjoy both acting and screenwriting, in completely different ways. You have more creative freedom with writing because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

  John Francis Daley

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Smell, Looks

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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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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