Noreena Hertz Quotes

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

Noreena Hertz

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• I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Focus
  • Poet
  • Uncomfortable

• I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• 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

• There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Focus
  • Scary
  • Celebrity

• When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Running
  • Focus
  • Opportunities

• What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • House
  • Focus

• And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Want
  • Focus

• My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Management

• We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Style

• When you have children, that's your main focus.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Children
  • You
  • Focus

• My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Together
  • Fun

• Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • True
  • Space
  • Focus

• 'As in the focus of a magnifying glass, play contains all developmental tendencies in a condensed form and is itself a major source of development.'

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Focus

• 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

• I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

  

  James Daly
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• 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
  • Focus

• I remember, as a kid, my grandfather would grab my temples and say, 'You've got to focus, Jake. You've got to focus.'

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Remember
  • Focus

• I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• On his first full day in office, Mr. Trump insisted that his inaugural crowd was the largest ever, a baseless boast that will likely set a pattern for his relationship both to the media and to the truth.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • Truth
  • Relationship
  • Trump

• I have had enough of the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin... I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any moment.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flower
  • Treatment
  • Sexist

• There's parts of touring I like. I like the actual performance part, but the bit when you're in the airport waiting at the carousel for your bags to come around, I don't like that a bit.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Waiting

• Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

  

  Noreena Hertz
  • Focus
  • Effect
  • E-mail