Focused Quotes - Page 11

• I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A landscape painted with exactness forces you to see a determined number of clearly differentiated trees, while in a blurry canvas you can perceive as many trees as you want. The painting is more open.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Numbers, Tree

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Running cleared the day's cobwebs from my mind and focused my thinking, and gave me time and space to sort out anything that was bothering me, or to detach and think of nothing at all. When it's pouring rain and you're bowling along through the wet, there's satisfaction in knowing you're out there and the others aren't.

  Peter Snell

  Running, Rain, Thinking

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• Chant your mantra while engaged in work. This way, the mind will be continuously focused on Him.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Mind, Way

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2012

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• While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Food, Practice

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• Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Wise, Baby

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• By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, War, Years

  Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Vision, Facts

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Talking, Energy, Want

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• Archers are pretty focused.

  Geena Davis

  Archer

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• But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

  Betty Ford

  Recovery, Years, Understanding

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• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  Montel Williams

  Black And White, Thinking, Europe

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview,

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• So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

  Shirley Knight

  Directors, Hollywood, Dollars

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• A paradigm shift, where, in addition to, physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs, can be a promising way forward. This knowledge based approach will bring immense returns particularly in Rainfed and Dryland farming areas.

  Pratibha Patil

  Rain, Way Forward, Land

  Pratibha Patil's Speech on the Eve of Demitting Office of the President, pib.nic.in. July 24, 2012.

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• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

  Aloe Blacc

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.

  Candace Cameron

  Mom, Dad, Next

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

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• When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Teacher, Dad, Reading

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• I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

  Jeb Bush

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

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• I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

  Ben Casnocha

  Basketball, School, Three Things

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• I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.

  Katie Cassidy

  Character, Worry, Focus

  "Katie Cassidy Talks ARROW, Her Desire for Laurel to Take the Black Canary Path, the Character’s Relationship with Oliver, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 9, 2012.

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• For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.

  Mark Consuelos

  Couple, Home, Years

  "Mark Consuelos Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, How He Got Involved with the Show, Its Dark Subject Matter and Working on the Asylum Set". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

  Alex Chilton

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

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• I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.

  Tim Cook

  Who I Am, Apples, Ceo

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• Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Character, Men, Two

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks 'Party Down' Movie, Going Bridal at Sundance in Two Wedding Comedies (Q&A)". Interview with Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

  Susan Cain

  People, Attention, Natural

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• I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

  Warren Christopher

  Responsibility, Keys, Trying

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