Defocused Quotes

#1. Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.

Eric Weiner

#2. When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.

Eric Weiner

#3. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

January Jones

#4. I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.

Linda Moulton Howe

#5. It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Leigh Hunt

#7. Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

Meghan O'Rourke

#8. Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

Oswald Chambers

#9. Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.

George Will

#10. As consumers, we're too busy to pay attention to advertising, but we're desperate to find good stuff that solves our problems.

Seth Godin