Focuses Quotes

#1. Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born, and I am honored to be a part of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen.

Joan Crawford

#3. The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. True prayer does not seek God's help, but it focuses on what is good for everyday life and all of humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.

Lawrence Lessig

#6. Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

Laini Taylor

#7. Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Arthur C. Clarke

#8. Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.

Eric Maskin

#9. Tess focuses on Cyclops's placid, one-eyes face. He lost one of his black button eyes year ago, but she wouldn't let Mrs. O'Hare replace it. She said it made him more interesting, and changed his name from Barnabus.

Jessica Spotswood

#10. The Guild focuses on the ones paying attention to pussy," Ristan remarked crudely. "If we were all dead-set on bedding your women, would you not take offense?

Amelia Hutchins

#11. I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

Rob Machado

#12. The pessimist focuses on the storm;
the optimist looks forward to the rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.

Thomas Friedman

#14. When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive

Ezra Taft Benson

#15. If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.

Trent Reznor

#16. Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#18. Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.

Paul Miller

#19. Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

Aberjhani

#20. I think some of our members may have thought the default issue was a hostage you might take a chance at shooting. Most of us didn't think that. What we did learn is this - it's a hostage that's worth ransoming. And it focuses the Congress on something that must be done.

Mitch McConnell

#21. We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true
humor.

Mark Twain

#22. Women's potential to disrupt patriarchy and make men vulnerable is why it's so easy for women to make men feel foolish or emasculated through the mildest humor that focuses on maleness and hints at women's power to stop going along with the status quo.

Allan G. Johnson

#23. When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise.

Maureen Dowd

#24. It says a lot about Sandberg's brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

Jessica Roy

#25. I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry.

Bill Ackman

#26. Traditional project management focuses on task-level details and loses sight of the benefits projects aim to deliver.

Terry Schmidt

#27. Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

Jeremy Clarkson

#28. A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.

T.D. Jakes

#29. A warrior doesn't focus on the odds stacked against her. She focuses on her heart, on her will to face the evil in her world and defeat it, and then she finds a way to do it. Lorelai

C.J. Redwine

#30. Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

Cornel West

#31. It focuses on the need for comprehensive assessment and describes in detail the theory, processes, and instrumentation of forensic risk assessment,

Phil Rich

#32. Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

Baba Kalyani

#33. I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#34. I have too much energy, even for myself. I'm lucky to have something that focuses me.

Jose Parla

#35. The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

John Medina

#36. If a woman pushes to get the job done, if she's highly competent, if she focuses on results rather than on pleasing others, she's acting like a man. And if she acts like a man, people dislike her.

Sheryl Sandberg

#37. An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.

Geraldine Solon

#38. What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus is and the wonderful works of Jesus, it focuses on how you and I can find the kingdom of God, or life in the presence of God.

Elaine Pagels

#39. The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

Brian Greene

#40. I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

Carol Windley

#41. Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful and joyous life.

Jaggi Vasudev

#42. It bothered me that the bag bothered me more than head did, but what are you going to do? A person doesn't conciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.

David Sedaris

#43. People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.

Eddi Reader

#44. My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

Ban Ki-moon

#45. One negative side of grief is that it focuses us inward upon ourselves, often leading to lapses of patience and gentleness with those around us.

James R. White

#46. Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

Matt Smith

#47. Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

#48. The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

Jasper Fforde

#49. We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.

Kevin Systrom

#50. Knowing your purpose focuses your life.

Rick Warren

#51. Agile Project Management focuses on selecting the right skills for project team members and molding them into productive teams.

Jim Highsmith

#52. Women - - and men - - need to understand that a woman's transition is often much longer. The caretaker must leave the place of orientation to the needs of others to the place where she focuses on herself.

Esther Perel

#53. to the depths of your awareness and to the unknown. The first steps are willingness and courage. Five minutes per day is enough to get started. Even a one-minute conscious pause will make a difference. Beginning with the simplest form of meditation can establish discipline, which focuses the mind

Myra Lewin

#54. Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.

Bradley Whitford

#55. Marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!

Eric Jerome Dickey

#56. I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.

Gabrielle Reece

#57. Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you; our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.

Harold S. Kushner

#58. A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

Elizabeth George

#59. I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Dwyane Wade

#60. As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

Marc Faber

#61. A man of purpose focuses on his destination, not his situation. Don't let your situation mislead you!

T. B. Joshua

#62. The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

Dean Cavanagh

#63. The guerrilla is obsessed with benefits. Whenever offering a product or service, she focuses on how it will benefit the consumer and builds everything - the product, the delivery, the marketing - around that benefit.

Jay Conrad Levinson

#64. Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

#65. Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.

Maelle Gavet

#66. OCD focuses on the negative. I didn't think to myself, My praying will save my grandma. Instead, I thought, If I don't pray, my grandma will die for sure.

J.J. Keeler

#67. The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

Bruce Springsteen

#68. Passion is about the calling. Passion is the motivator behind the mission. Passion focuses us on "being" and not on "doing.

Wendy K. Walters

#69. Disappointment focuses on 'what is not,' and completely misses the far greater reality of 'what now is.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#70. 'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.

Cameron Monaghan

#71. Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

D. Wayne Calloway

#72. But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.

John Crowley

#73. Placing our attention on providing consistent appreciation, approval, and applause to those we love not only focuses their energy on the good things about themselves but also teaches them to return the favor to us.

Sue Patton Thoele

#74. I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling.

Toni Jerrman

#75. This is also the case with our disease-care system: it focuses on treating symptoms as if they were root causes, and as a result, it tends to choose interventions that completely ignore the true root causes and thus make it highly likely that symptoms will reappear.

T. Colin Campbell

#76. Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as tools for strengthening our spiritual muscles.

Luci Shaw

#77. The relatively new field of "adolescent medicine" focuses not only on the traditional medical model of diagnosis and treatment, but, perhaps more than any other subspecialty of medicine, on education and prevention.

Madeline Levine

#78. Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

Diane Ackerman

#79. I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all interwoven in a weird way.

Paul Beatty

#80. Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

Adam Rich

#81. Human beings had two basic orientations: HAVING and BEING
HAVING: seeks to acquire, posses things even people
BEING: focuses on the experience; exchanging, engaging, sharing with other people

Erich Fromm

#82. The resume focuses on you and the past. The cover letter focuses on the employer and the future. Tell the hiring professional what you can do to benefit the organization in the future. (12)

Joyce Lain Kennedy

#83. American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning

Neil Patrick Harris

#84. A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.

Peter F. Drucker

#85. Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

Suzanne Fields

#86. The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

#87. Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.

Chuck Schumer

#88. I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

Raf Simons

#89. Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

Fethullah Gulen

#90. A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Al Ries

#91. Routledge Performance Practitioners is an innovative series of introductory handbooks on key figures in twentieth-century performance practice. Each volume focuses on a theater-maker whose practical and theoretical work has in some way transformed the way we understand theater and performance.

Karen K. Bradley

#92. I draw a lot from Buddhism, which focuses on compassion and kindness, loving kindness, as they call it, but rejects empathy because it's a poor moral guide. And I think there's a lot of evidence suggesting that they're right.

Paul Bloom

#93. While there are many problems, if one focuses on the bigger picture there are numerous reasons to be thankful for living in a time of remarkable progress and wonderful possibilities for the future.

John Templeton

#94. Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.

Romesh Wadhwani

#95. The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#96. The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can ensure that each South African child, whatever the circumstances of their birth, inherits freedom they can use.

Helen Zille

#97. The novel also focuses on abandoned babies, child abuse, bizarre murders, relationships, pet abuse, policemen, physicians and so many more. Knowing what I know, I believe the only thing that truly shines in Dubai is the sun.

Northern Empress

#98. A wise man is detached from the drama of the material world because he focuses instead on the source from which all dualities of light and darkness, good and evil, pleasure and pain actually originate.

Deepak Chopra

#99. What the mind focuses on, it feasts on. And if you want to know what a person's focus and feast is, all you have to do is listen to the words that come out of her mouth.

Lysa TerKeurst

#100. Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.

Thomas Moore