Focus Quotes - Page 38

• Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

  Jane McGonigal

  Stress, Weakness, Research

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Song, News Stories, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think religious freedom is part of the U.S.'s policy and Congress mandated the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. So it is important that the U.S. focus in dialogue, development projects, cooperation with Pakistan and other countries to give more importance to religious freedom issues.

  Shahbaz Bhatti

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Pray that I would keep my focus on the Lord, no matter what.

  Frances Newton

  Matter, No Matter What, Lord

  "Frances Newton: Faith on Death Row". Interview with Terry Meeuwsen, www.cbn.com.

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• The best way to get Americans to focus on what's happening in Afghanistan is by using the example of their own.

  Tim Hetherington

  Example, Way, Afghanistan

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like, five seconds, I basically got the tempo, and I don't need to hear it no more. I just focus and write.

  Dreezy

  Writing, Causes, Needs

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Business schools tend to focus on topics that are suitable to blackboards, so they overemphasize organization and finance. Until very recently, they virtually ignored manufacturing. I think of lot of the troubles of the 1970s and 1980s, and now more recently the 2000s can be traced pretty directly to the biases of the business schools.

  Charles R. Morris

  School, Thinking, Organization

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.

  Erik Rutan

  War, Challenges, Battle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It's painful to not be able to fully focus, but it keeps you fresh.

  Brian Chippendale

  Able, Painful

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

  Conor McGregor

  Thinking, Want, Who We Are

  Source: hypebeast.com

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• I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Kind, Clear

  "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.

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• When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.

  Jimenez Lai

  Practice, Students, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at me for anything I've left out. I feel like all the major movements of her life are there.

  Danielle Dutton

  Artist, Trying, Experts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Some kid can say, "Hey, I really want you to play my town in Switzerland, or Sweden, or Latvia," and they could have a fun night at the show. On the other hand, all those kids could have a record that means something to them in a more personal way a couple months down the road. The live band is a really important thing for us, but my focus is on the album now.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Couple, Fun, Mean

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

  Tracy Morgan

  People, Want, Focused

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Too many people focus on the thing, instead of the heavenly glory of it. I don't want to give away what to expect.

  Tracy Morgan

  People, Giving, Want

  "Tracy Morgan is coming to Foxwoods". Interview With Linda Tuccio-Koonz, www.ctpost.com. March 14, 2016.

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• What keeps me motivated is going out to the field and seeing programs that incorporate a focus on both people and the planet, and seeing how mutually reinforcing they can really be.

  Helene D. Gayle

  People, Going Out, Fields

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We just worked hard to not just get things right and authentic, but also to make it consistent and visually right. For instance, there are colours that aren't in the film that would have been there in reality. I think part of the look of the film not only has to do with the way it's shot and lit, but also the lack of certain colours that give it a softness which really suits it because there's more focus on the characters. For instance, there's no yellow at all until we get to Miss Stubbs' flat at the very end.

  Lone Scherfig

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think a much better use of time and resources is to really focus on your existing users or customers and figure out what changes can you make in the Web site, the service, the product, whatever, to get them to come back more often to generate that repeat business and once you kind of figure out that formula, then when you get new customers the whole thing just kind of grows exponentially.

  Tony Hsieh

  Thinking, Use, Kind

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Rather than focus on trying to get a lot of customers to market yourself, really focus more on the actual product or service itself and existing users to, like, what would make them happier, what would make them come back more and more times or in our case buy more often.

  Tony Hsieh

  Trying, More Time, Cases

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Reality

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• If there's a lot of fear that's going on, if there's a lot of anxiety, it's manifesting itself in your nocturnal world so that analyzing it can help open up basically thoughts about what you need to do during the day. So a lot of people who subscribe to the psychoanalysis, the Jungian thought will really focus a lot on dreams, the meaning, and how it can be used to help you during the day.

  Shelby Harris

  Dream, People, Anxiety

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

  Antonio Damasio

  Fall, Problem, Sole

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.

  Antonio Damasio

  Consciousness, Grades, Streams

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.

  Tod Machover

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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