Focus Quotes
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In putting setting to work, I like to think about long shots and close-ups. The long shot is the overall view of the place in which the characters live - the island, the town, the wide sweep of place. Then we narrow in. The close-up, the tight focus, makes the place different from anywhere else.
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My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.
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We focus on a unique form of artificial intelligence called artificial swarm intelligence.
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Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
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I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
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This world isn't perfect. That means it isn't perfectly good; but it isn't perfectly bad, either. The ease comes with the hardship. Shift the focus of what you see, and your experience of this life will change.
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We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.
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For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
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Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
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My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
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I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
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We live in a fearful society that has perfected the art of doubting, weaned us on worry, and trained us to focus on everything that can or has gone wrong.
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It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.
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Our myopic focus on producing and consuming as cheaply as possible has created a linear economy in which objects are briefly used and then discarded as waste.
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I just love making music, and that's my focus.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.
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If folks focus in on a niche and own it, there is a good chance they could make half a living from blogging.
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In a situation of unequal power, a subordinate group has to focus on survival. It becomes very important for the subordinates to become highly attuned to the dominants as a way of protecting themselves from them.
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You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.
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The focus is what is right before you - to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.
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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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We continue to focus on actually solving problems that real people have and not being distracted by what power users want.
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I think my service is better than my food... I focus so much on the service.
