Focus Quotes - Page 22

• With directing, your day is done. When you hit seven o'clock, it's "Cut." That's what it is. For better or worse, that's what you've got and you have to make that work, and there's something incredibly liberating about that because you can't torture yourself. You have to focus on the moment, and you have to embrace every second and opportunity and maximize that, whereas with writing, there's no imperative there. You just amble along.

  Dan Mazer

  Writing, Cutting, Opportunity

  Source: collider.com

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• I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Stephanie Seymour Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 17, 2013.

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• In terms of whether or not you'll see other heroes along the way, you absolutely will. But, one of the things that makes our Avengers show unique is that this is our cast. We want to be able to focus on this group, much like they did in the movie.

  Jeph Loeb

  Hero, Unique, Groups

  Source: collider.com

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• But, at the end of the day, we want to have a show where we can focus on these individuals and their relationships with each other. That's really what the show is about.

  Jeph Loeb

  The End Of The Day, Want, Individual

  Source: collider.com

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• So it's an interesting process just going through and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what's the best version of it. It was a good process because I think we all collectively, when everyone would run into issues in the cut or know that things weren't working, they kind of glaringly stuck out so we could focus on fixing those things and it wasn't a situation where you would show it to ten people and you would have ten problems.

  Bryan Burk

  Running, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Great motivators are visible at the front and lead by their actions. Hiding in your office or mysteriously traveling all the time on unknown missions are sure ways to cause the focus of your team to disperse.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Office, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Televisison is like a factory line. You need discipline and focus. You have to hit your mark and know your lines. It's not that I don't know my lines when I do a film, but the pace of discovery is always a little bit more relaxed and nurturing and almost babying, in a way. Television toughens you up, and I like that, but I don't want it to toughen me up too much.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Discovery, Discipline, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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• Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.

  Star Parker

  School, Kids, Fighting

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• The way to maximize outcome is to focus on the process.

  Seth Klarman

  Outcomes, Way, Process

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• Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.

  Seth Klarman

  Thinking, Opportunity, Long

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we believe. To not only learn but also effectively implement investment lessons requires a disciplined, often contrary, and long-term-oriented investment approach. It requires a resolute focus on risk aversion rather than maximizing immediate returns, as well as an understanding of history, a sense of financial market cycles, and, at times, extraordinary patience.

  Seth Klarman

  Believe, Long, Understanding

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• I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so no investment should be ruled out simply on the basis of past history. We focus on liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis alone.

  Peter Cundill

  Past, Mind, Trying

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• My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Jobs, Games, Play

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• When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Errors, Play, Important

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• I suppose once upon a time a Test match was something you looked forward to go and watch. It's very hard to get the quality these days because the focus is more on quantity.

  David Campese

  Once Upon A Time, Quality, Watches

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• The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, News, Violence

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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.

  Dale Carnegie

  Together, Next, Complaining

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• Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you
  do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even
  when you don't get what you expect.

  Victoria Osteen

  Blessing, Being Thankful, Littles

  Victoria Osteen (2011). “Daily Readings from Love Your Life: Devotions for Living Happy, Healthy, and Whole”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't reinvent the wheel. Focus on winning one customer at a time. Be honest and sincere. Do what's right. There's nothing magical about this. That's been my guiding principle. To make it work, you have to live it every day. Make it your mindset.

  Robert Spector

  Winning, Guiding Principles, Wheels

  Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy (2012). “The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: The Handbook For Becoming the "Nordstrom" of Your Industry”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons

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• If you don't get result-oriented with the kids, you can focus on the things in the process that are important to them being successful.

  Nick Saban

  Kids, Successful, Important

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• The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.

  Nick Saban

  Determination, Attitude, Successful

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• Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change.

  Nick Saban

  Ongoing, Care, Never Change

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• Love takes time. It's a process not a goal. Love is something that needs to be nurtured. But if there is one thing I urge you to start immediately it's focus on bringing out the best in each person on your team. When you love someone you want the best for him. You want him to shine. And the best way to do this is to help him discover the value inside him.

  Jon Gordon

  Team, Love Is, Goal

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• The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Morality

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2015

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• We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.

  Steven J Lawson

  Eye, Christ

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