Focused Quotes - Page 36

• I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money.

  Jens Lekman

  Thinking, Becoming, Making Money

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."

  Kevin Systrom

  Beautiful, Math, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sailing really forces you to be present and in the moment. You kind of forget about the bullshit of life. Your thoughts go away because you're focused on making sure everything's working. I like being in that place.

  Daria Werbowy

  Bullshit, Sailing, Going Away

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings.

  DJ Khaled

  Smart, Surroundings, Protect

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• That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

  Pedro Noguera

  Education, Children, Kids

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.

  Eric Drooker

  May, Littles, Rooms

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I tend to gravitate toward the "act two," or "act three," or "act four" stories - either things that are underreported, where we think we already know the common narrative, or things that are at the margins of an over-reported story, where we're all so focused in one direction that we're missing something crucial that's unfolding off to the side.

  Sarah Stillman

  Thinking, One Direction, Two

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.

  Sarah Stillman

  War, People, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, as opposed to what you stand for being your motivation.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Running, Motivation, Winning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

  Michael Hastings

  Iraq, Facts, Impossible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain. We were so psychotic for each other that I didn't care about anything else. It was too much. Relationships are important, but stay focused on all the things that are important. Figure out what you want.

  Daren Kagasoff

  Falling In Love, School, Over You

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• That is a horrible thing in a way, but it is the one thing poets can bring back to experience, this intense focus on language, which activates words as a portal back into experience. It's a mysterious process that's very hard to articulate, because it's focused entirely on the material of language in a way, but in the interests not just of language itself whatever that would mean - that's the mistake, by the way, that so many so-called "experimental" poets make - but in service to human experience.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Mistake, Mean, Focus

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.

  Walter Kirn

  Husband, Book, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Usually, whatever's in front of me is what I'm focused on and it's 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next. Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.

  Adam Young

  Moving, Order, Next

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

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• After working as a producer on many pop, electronica and some soundtrack, incidental music projects, I became more focused on film and TV scores.

  Paul Wardingham

  Tvs, Film, Soundtracks

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Much of the early work focused on dopamine and we were really looking for rewarding sorts of effects and sure enough, we only found that. But you can destroy the main dopamine-producing structures of the brain and you can still get an animal to self-administer drugs like cocaine.

  Carl Hart

  Animal, Self, Drug

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I focused hard on getting a literary agent, and doing things like that, instead of designing my blog's header, I would have more money, I think. I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view [anything] as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

  Tao Lin

  Thinking, Views, Design

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I liked the push and pull of that, between the outer political world and the inner personal lives of the characters. It's also real life... Many of us are keenly aware of world events, but break your nose and I bet that's the main thing you'd be focused on.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Real, Character, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have been, earlier in my life, a lazy writer. I'd spend three hours at the gym to avoid writing, or I'd just find other distractions - reading, doing laundry, talking on the phone, etc. But suddenly I was like a laser beam: I was relentlessly focused, sometimes to the detriment of other things.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Reading, Writing, Phones

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Wall, Healing, Feel Better

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Pain, Past, Suffering

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I love working with Liev [Schreiber]. I've known him for a long time. I just think he is a master. Few actors are so self-possessed and so focused and so confident.

  Peter Jacobson

  Thinking, Self, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.

  Peter Jacobson

  Fun, Real, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that there has to be some balance of energy, or, failing a balance, a focused intensity of ALL energy. I've experienced both, I suppose.

  Kevin Keck

  Writing, Balance, Energy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

  Bela Fleck

  Opportunity, People, Missing

  Source: therumpus.net

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