Focus Quotes - Page 15

• It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos

  Political, Needs, Cooperation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No one wants to say they hate their own body. Many are scared that if they confide in others then people will look down on them. This is wrong. It's not weak to talk about it. On the contrary. It's the same with alcoholics and drug addicts - you have to be honest with yourself first. When you have accepted the negatives you can then focus on the positives, like, I have nice hair, nice eyes, great cheekbones.

  Crystal Renn

  Nice, Hate, Eye

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Sex, Long, Want

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

  Unknown

  Successful, Warrior, Men

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• It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.

  Mark Hart

  Couple, Heart, Humility

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• Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.

  Laurent A. Daloz

  Teacher, Memories, May

  Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.

  Benjamin F Sullivan

  Love, Life, Beautiful

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• The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.

  Andy Richter

  Thinking, Important, Worthwhile

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  Lovely, Needs, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• There's absolutely no point in beating yourself up. Focus on going forward.

  Mary Harron

  Beating Yourself Up, No Point, Beating Yourself

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• I can hardly believe what these 12 caricatures [about Prophet Muhammad] have caused in the world. We Danes feel like we have been placed in a scene in the wrong movie. But I don't see the fight as a clash of civilizations. Rather, we must focus on avoiding exactly this type of conflict. We have to return to dialogue, to mutual understanding and to an acknowledgement of freedom of opinion.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Believe, Fighting, Civilization

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• First, we need good, stable relations with Russia. Second, we must make every effort to save energy and focus on using various sources to meet our energy needs. We must not allow ourselves to become dependent.

  Angela Merkel

  Russia, Effort, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• During the season, it's a lot of maintaining your fitness, so in the winter time is when the main work is done. During the season, I just try to maintain my speed with different types of drills with my trainer. I also work on some muscles. If there's ever any injuries during races, then I'll focus a lot of my time on the muscle recovery.

  Valtteri Bottas

  Recovery, Winter, Race

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Wrestling with work-life balance is a luxury when working to support a family is a necessity rather than a choice. I think that focus is only partially a result of these tough economic times. I think it also reflects a bit of "having it all fatigue": women are worn out from feeling the pressure to excel at work, and be the perfect mom at home.

  Willow Bay

  Mom, Wrestling, Home

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a soccer player, the goal isn't to be very bulky. It is more important to even your body out. Make sure your body is well rounded. You can't really focus on one area. Everything has to be balanced.

  Jozy Altidore

  Soccer, Player, Goal

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Conducting is intensely social. You work with a hundred people every day. You collaborate, you try to focus their thoughts, you try to give them a concept, you try to inspire them, and it's actually exhausting.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  People, Giving, Inspire

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When I am at my limit and hurting, I focus on the moment.

  Timothy O'Donnell

  Hurt, Limits, Moments

  "Triathlon Gear". Interview with Chris Aung-Thwin, www.askmen.com. December 29, 2013.

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• Kids still like to laugh, kids still like the joy of learning. When you have a cool science experiment, I don't care where you're from. When you have that aha moment, whether you're in China or Kenya, that kid's eyes are gonna open up. So I really try to focus more on what we have in common than what differs us.

  Rafe Esquith

  Kids, Eye, Laughing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.

  Michelle Rhee

  Growing Up, Numbers, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.

  Michelle Rhee

  Country, Progress, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Writing, People

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and on time and dealing with selling the movie so that to me is a focus. But also it's about serving the script. We are genre filmmakers, those are the films we love to make, so my perspective is a little different.

  Charles Roven

  Goal, Perspective, Vision

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

  Chris Weidman

  Brain, Rooms, Cages

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• Having had been not so well traveled as a kid, as most teenagers aren't, I always thought, "Okay I'm going to focus my energy on rap and the rap game, because that's how I'm going to be able to pay rent and pay off my school loans." But seeing the reaction with this whole gay rap situation has made me not want to play into it at all anymore and just make whatever.

  Le1f

  Teenager, Rap, Kids

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.

  Steve Case

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Philosophy

  "What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2011.

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