Focus Quotes
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I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at.
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I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.
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It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'
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People remember you as you leave a program not in the middle of it or how you came in. And I think that's something they're all trying to focus on.
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A campaign gives you focus. You wake up to a different hotel alarm clock every day, but you know your mission.
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It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.
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Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less
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People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.
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What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.
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Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and test focus-grouping it and filling out forms.
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What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
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We definitely “grow” demos. In the beginning, we have a rough idea, and it usually is a work in progress for a few months. We usually have a couple going at the same time. When a song gets “there”, we will then zero in on it, and focus and finish it.
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In the end, Obama won, stealing the change message from John Edwards and beating back Hillary Clinton's focus on experience. And the race turned on a remarkable speech Obama gave on the night of Nov. 10, 2007, in Des Moines.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
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I know there are a lot of people who say that great players have trouble coaching, but I do think he is a little different. Two things you value in a coach are patience and long-term focus, and I think Wayne has both of those.
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My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.
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The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.
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Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time.
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Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes them possible, they often become insensitive and inconsiderate, neglecting the little kindnesses and courtesies so important to a deep relationship. They begin to use control levers to manipulate each other, to focus on their own needs, to justify their own position and look for evidence to show the wrongness of the other person. The love, the richness, the softness and spontaneity begin to deteriorate.
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It's important to understand that you have to dedicate time to your sponsors, to have relationships with the people and the media, but it is also hard when you are first coming up and your primary focus is on tennis.
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I try to shy away from labels and focus on the issues.
