Michael Nyman Quotes

I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

Michael Nyman

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• I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Focus
  • Yourself

• I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Gay

• Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Balance

• My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Doing

• 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Focus
  • Sometimes
  • Easy

• Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Music
  • Different
  • Character

• As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Actor

• The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Focus
  • Research
  • Islamic

• I feel very honoured and humbled to have people think, 'If Yuna can break through, then why can't we?' It takes a lot of work, but I tell people to just have that focus. Always be humble and a learner, practice and do research.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Music
  • Song
  • Day

• The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Focus
  • Intelligence
  • Budget

• Education is a cause very close to me. What matters is encouraging my fans to focus on their education, because only an educated generation can ensure a better future. Even when I was on tour, I did my homework and studied.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Future
  • Education
  • Focus

• We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Focus

• There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Focus
  • Negativity

• I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Focus

• I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  

  Horace
  • Positive
  • Failure
  • Circumstances

• The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Knowledge
  • Students
  • High School

• If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Why
  • She
  • Remember

• Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

  

  Vissarion Belinsky
  • Ideas
  • Worry
  • Incarnation

• He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Equality

• I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.

  

  Michael Nyman
  • Focus
  • Circumstances
  • Events