Focus Quotes
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Too often we concentrate only on the things we can see now; but our focus should be on that place we can only envision, but will enjoy for all eternity.
David Jeremiah
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I'm getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy.
Danielle Fishel
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The contrasting focus on connection versus hierarchy also sheds light on innumerable adult conversations - and frustrations. Say a woman tells another about a personal problem and hears in response, 'I know how you feel' or 'the same thing happens to me.' The resulting 'troubles talk' reinforces the connection between them.
Deborah Tannen
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
Randy Pausch
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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've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy.
Randi Weingarten
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I try to focus on what I can control, and that's just playing hard and playing well.
Andrew Benintendi
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You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.
Brad Alan Lewis
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As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
Uday Kotak
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The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.
Jenova Chen
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Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world - it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more distinct brands.
Alain Dehaze
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The F-word here is focus.
Jan Koum
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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.
Daniel Goleman
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The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
Jeff Bridges
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There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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Whatever I do, I have to put 100 percent of my focus into it because I don't like to do a bad job.
Katie Stevens
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We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
William Labov
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The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.
Debbie Stabenow
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My husband and I have kept a good balance between the work and the rest. I feel so lucky having a job, and I know so may people who focus too much on work, and their home lives suffer.
Jewel Kilcher
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I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
Jerry Saltz
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
Zaha Hadid
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I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.
Dan Quinn
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Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.
Pat Cadigan
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During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.
Brandon Jennings