Focused Quotes - Page 22

• Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.

  Chris Hughes

  Ideas, People, Company

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• It's like having a conversation. Doing beatbox for me is as natural as talking is for someone else. Sending sound through a certain part of my throat, so that I am accurate every time. It's not like whatever happens happens, this is a focused sound.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Talking, Sound, 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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• In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A "good" consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.

  Mario Draghi

  Government, Investment, Infrastructure

  "Interview with The Wall Street Journal". Interview with Robert Thomson, Matt Karnitschnig, Brian Blackston, www.ecb.europa.eu. February 24, 2012.

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• When I get all focused on songwriting, I get into all the marketing and promotion that we do to make it happen. Then the right song comes along and blows it all out of the water. The right song will do it for you every time.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Song, Blow, Water

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• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Wings, Agony, Waiting

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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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• I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

  Michel Gondry

  Jobs, Cutting, Jumping

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• Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

  Ken Auletta

  Passion, Vision, Batteries

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• There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment. If you are not focused, you will pick up these energies.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Enlightenment, Energy

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• In the last two years, the amount of legislation in the House of Representatives and state legislatures has been really unprecedented, that has focused on reproductive rights.

  Sandra Fluke

  Rights, Years, Two

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• I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

  Felicia Day

  Thinking, Passionate, Definitions

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

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• I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

  Michael C. Hall

  Want, Shows, Right Now

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• Life is way too short to be focused on scales, weight and cellulite. If you can look in the mirror and know that you're a beautiful, loving, friendly person who's good to people, that'll ultimately make you shine on the outside.

  Teresa Palmer

  Beautiful, Shine On, Mirrors

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• No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.

  Chanel Iman

  Dog, Baby, Careers

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• I'm really focused when I'm working out, so I don't really listen to music. I like to listen to music after, because it's like, 'Yeah! I finished! Let's party!

  Chanel Iman

  Party, Work Out, Yeah

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• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  Etgar Keret

  Beautiful, Want, Sometimes

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

  Jon Krakauer

  Autism, Heaven, Projects

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• I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

  David Knopfler

  People, Tears, Weakness

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• We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

  Peter MacKay

  Party, People, Growing

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• I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.

  Jo Nesbo

  Selfish, Fighting, Thinking

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• It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

  Mike Singletary

  Football, Winning, Thinking

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• Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

  Rob Portman

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

  Edward Ruscha

  World, Sacred, Forgotten

  "Ed Ruscha's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.

  Aly Raisman

  Strong, Powerful, Needs

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