Focused Quotes - Page 38

• I haven't studied it deeply, but the American banks started the crisis with far more capital and what I would call "good liquidity." The riskiest funding is unsecured wholesale funding. It's the most fickle. Not repo, which the government focused on, too. Unsecured. JPMorgan Chase had almost none of that - virtually zero.

  Jamie Dimon

  Zero, Government, Fickle

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I'm more focused as a singer and hands-on with music and more exacting, and less trying to furiously fit a thousands thoughts into a four minute song.

  Dan Bejar

  Song, Hands, Trying

  "Destroyer. Pornographer. Bejar". Interview with Phil Runco, brightestyoungthings.com. June 12, 2012.

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• And it's given me great perspective. It makes me really focused and efficient, which - I was focused before I had babies but I wasted a lot of time. Prior to having babies I thought I was so busy and now I realize just how ignorant I was.

  Kerri Walsh

  Baby, Perspective, Ignorant

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• You don't get a chance to sit back and relax because this is the point where we're tweaking things to see what works and what doesn't work; so the level of concentration is very focused. But who wouldn't be happy with this? It's a great opportunity and a really great piece of writing. I'm just really very fortunate.

  Sean Mahon

  Writing, Opportunity, Relax

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.

  Adam Rapp

  Writing, World, Different

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I'm speaking, I'm more focused on the words as meaning. When I'm singing, I'm more focused on the words as sound. The emotion is more targeted when I'm speaking, more flowing when I'm singing.

  Loren Mazzacane Connors

  Singing, Sound, Emotion

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Fighting, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of a Ramones song if their life depended on it because they didn't have the strength or ability to do it. But all I did was practice that, and the style that I eventually fell into is more focused than people would actually imagine.

  Kevin Shields

  Song, School, Practice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

  Daughn Gibson

  Home, Kids, Parent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It's an item that could make you believe you're in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.

  Drew Barrymore

  Believe, Thinking, Rocks

  "Best Coast: Our Deal". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 9, 2011.

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• What excites me is the idea of doing a record that's pretty clean and focused on songs. I've rushed a lot with previous albums and there's not a rush now - it's not a race.

  Ty Segall

  Song, Race, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.

  Laura Mullen

  Crazy, Fighting, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I choose the most qualified people. We need to run more women in parties in ridings where they can be elected. That's what I really focused on, so that we have more women to select for cabinet, potentially.

  Christy Clark

  Running, Party, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think we should be worried about the fact that we have become, as a society, very focused on the way people look, the way they dress. I do think we should worry about that because we should be worried about content. We should be worried about ideas. We should not be putting form over function.

  Christy Clark

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.

  Rayvon Owen

  Worry, Competition, Performing

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 10, 2016.

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• The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally accepted. Consequently, there is now a younger generation that is more focused on making great electronic music, good parties, and having fun, where there is not any more so much need for cultural and ideological statements in electronic music itself.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Fun, Party, Today

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think the majority of the people in the band still play in other bands, because we're not that active. But for me, it's the only thing I want to do and it's the only thing I'm focused on. I've always played in a couple of different bands at once, but now I'm only interested in the Dead Child stuff.

  David Pajo

  Children, Couple, Thinking

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when it was completely done and in printed galleys, I was surprised by how uninterested in the passage of time and history the book seemed to be. Even though you can feel it all there, that's just not what it's focused on.

  Danielle Dutton

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.

  Tracy Morgan

  People, Focus, Want

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

  Philippa Perry

  Meditation, Brain, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.

  Jessica Valenti

  Men, People, Facts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very focused and I have a good work ethic that I learned in school.

  Jenny Slate

  Jobs, School, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

  Emmy Rossum

  Trends, Inspired, Persons

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I didn't make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years. And I just focused almost exclusively on my initiatives for national crime legislation, foreign policy issues.

  Joe Biden

  Years, Issues, Political

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