Focusing Quotations

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, where I feel like they were really good at focusing in on each writers voice and setting. When I felt like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up.

Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.

Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

The fact is that viewers are fickle and it's rare that such a large group of people can be categorized in any type of way. There's enough content to go around, and if we stop focusing on numbers and start focusing on the quality of the project, then I think everybody - viewers and artists alike - is going to be a lot happier.

I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.

I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody to move at the same pace, and that's probably not massively endearing.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.

We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy - the American middle class and those struggling to enter it.

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

Usually all I care about is how elegant or over-the-top the pieces are, it's nice to really get to understand what the customer wants and needs as opposed to just focusing on the aesthetic.

I'm trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually begin by focusing on siblings, spouses, even fathers, before I think about the mothers.

We rob ourselves of so much by focusing on the wrong stuff. And the ability to get into the moment and deal with what is, that's the real opportunity.

I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.

'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'

'SuperBetter' is fundamentally about a mind shift. It's about claiming your power to be in charge of how you spend your time and energy, and focusing it on the things that matter the most to you. Focusing on things that will bring real happiness, real well-being.

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

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.

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?

I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women's rights; rather, I am focusing on women to be independent to fight for themselves.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

The perception problem was there, and therefore it was real, ... We were focusing on that issue even before the brawl, but it certainly was an exclamation point in terms of perceptions of NBA players. We've got to do a better job of both acknowledging it and working to correct it.

We believe that Mr. Baldwin has severe emotional problems. Mr. Baldwin's lawyers attempted to cast terrible aspersions toward Kim rather than focusing on the main issue, which is his daughter.

There are some genuinely problematic reports out today, like Merck, but there's a lot of good stuff, too, and people are taking some pretty decent earnings and focusing on the negative.

We stopped the source of the spill and have deployed approximately 8,000 feet of boom to contain it. Our main goals are to protect people and the environment, so we're focusing our efforts on safely recovering the oil and minimizing impact to the environment and other businesses in the area. We're responding as aggressively as the weather conditions safely permit. No one has been injured, and we certainly want to keep it that way.

We're in a situation where, as time goes by, people develop other commitments. They get involved in other volunteer opportunities and the care and the generous heart that would have gone down here in the first place starts focusing elsewhere.

We started focusing on defense, and really working hard in practice. It was a change from the beginning of the season when we were a little lackadaisical.

We spent the first three years working on the inn, the gardens and developing that as a viable business. We feel like we're there, so now we're focusing our attention on this magazine, growing the magazine and finding new opportunities to serve our brides and the advertisers.

Until September 11, they really were focusing on keeping their balance sheet rather clean and keeping their leverage modest relative to the other big carriers. Unfortunately, that all changed after 2001.

While market participants are focusing on the recession signal associated with an inverted yield curve, consumers are feeling more confident about the economy heading into 2006.

While many are focusing on the infamous bankrupt entities as the primary culprits for the market losses, once must recognize that several companies that have not been besieged by fraud allegations have also lost billions in value.

We grew the federal government's role in education when we should have been focusing on the key missions of the federal government.

We felt like we had an opportunity at the end of last season to do something great but we didn't. Now it's over with and we've been focusing on this game ever since we first came in at the beginning of OTAs.

What made this week even better for him was his defense. He has improving defensively and if he keeps improving in that area our teams is going to get better and better. He is getting his hands up better and he sees the floor a lot better. Instead of focusing on just his individual man now he is seeing the court better where he can come in help out on the help side or beat his man to a spot and that is something we work on every single day with everyone.

World Expo attendees come away with a lot of industry information to sift through. We'll sort out the major announcements and developments, focusing on the most important insights from this top industry event, ... The convenient format of the Webcast will provide concise top-level show coverage for business leaders who attended the show, as well as those who missed the Expo.

Working with my colleagues, we're focusing on making that a reality.

We're just looking at this as one step on a long road. We feel like we've got a good team here and we want a chance to win a Stanley Cup. That's what we're focusing on right now.

We're getting steady, solid grouping, ... What were were focusing on was trying to close the gap between one and the group today and that seemed to happen. They're very consistent, but you never know what order they're going to come in, which is kind of nice for a coach.

We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.

We're focusing on tying all the different pieces together. We won't pursue a project unless we think there is an opportunity to make a sustainable business of it.

We're focusing on trying to have all kids be successful learners and we continue to keep our focus on closing the achievement gap and issues around literacy and math, for kids.

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

We're focusing on the seamless connectivity of consumer entertainment devices.

We're focusing on the little things on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, then we bring it together as a team Tuesdays and Thursdays. We're working on having a set routine. That's one of our main focuses for this year before we go in and hit and before any time we play.

We're focusing on the fundamentals. We can't change things because of the team we face. We have to keep it simple.

We're focusing on responding to small fires once they've been reported to make sure these small fires don't turn into large fires and further tax our resources.

We're focusing on recovering bodies and establishing an infrastructure for the police,

We're focusing on preservation of capital. I'm telling them to be happy with modest returns.

We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name 'icon' and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they're icons, people don't look below the fact of them.

We're focusing on ourselves -- our plays, not their plays.

We're focusing on open markets ... we're focusing on a successful Doha (global trade) round,

We're focusing on markets where we have established a leadership position. We're transitioning out of businesses that are no longer strategic to 3Com's future.

We're focusing on life-safety issue. But at the same time this could be an annoying problem. We get complaints about blocking the road and about the debris on sites.

We?re focusing on food service providers that want to put a face on their food, that want local food and want to know exactly where it is from. That?s the niche we?re trying to build upon.

We're focusing on evacuation and what would cause us to evacuate major portions of our population. One of the largest impacts on Davidson County would be the hopefully unlikely but catastrophic failure of the Wolf Creek Dam.

We're focusing on competing in the marketplace, not the courtroom.

We're focusing on companies that will be long-term players on the Internet.

We're focusing on accuracy in our presentations. They represent the culture and heritage they descended from.

We're focusing much too much on what's moving, which at the margin are the kind of that are negative for stocks and forgetting what's really crucial here. The fact is we are in an excess supply of money relative to the needs of the economy and corporate earnings growth will in fact be quite good in the third quarter.

We're focusing more on the drillers and some producers. The services sector I think will follow along a little bit later Anadarko Petroleum is one of our favorites, ... This is a bit of a natural gas play. It's the one company in this sector that can increase their production should prices turn higher. Many others are limited by their ability to continue to pump out further amounts of product. I think Anadarko is vastly undervalued. To get another 30-to-50 percent out of the name over the course of the next 12-to-18 months would not surprise me at all.

We're focusing more on the botanicals as opposed to more the fruit-driven infusions.

We're focusing enough on doing what we have to do to get the right result and send him off with the fairytale end.

We're focusing as much attention on software and the intellectual property that's lost in software as we are in entertainment in movies and sound on CDs and tape.

We're focusing a lot of energy on that game. You always want to win your conference games and we really want our first win to be at home. It would be great to get both in one game.

We're back to focusing on whether the economy has slowed.

We're really focusing on the total community picture, where residents can walk from home to the stores and back. We want to make sure we're not overburdening the already overburdened road system.

We're really focusing on the things that worked and keeping them going.

We're really focusing on defense. It really hurt us early on. We've been pressing, trying to get stops. Now, we're locking up and playing better helper-to-helper defense.

We know for a fact that lesbians are likely to be under-insured and only go to the doctor when there's a problem. We weren't doing full justice just focusing on cancer.

We know at some point the Republicans will sort out this process and choose a nominee. In the meantime, Sen. Clinton will continue focusing on being the best senator she can be and delivering for the people of New York.

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

Ultimately, ... I think the president is unusually good at ignoring all kinds of outside pressure with an important decision like this and focusing on the merits and what's important for the long term.

We're still focusing on who's going to emerge.

We've got everything stabilized. I think we've gotten just about all of the evacuees that we expected to get over the next couple of days. Right now, we're focusing on making things as comfortable as possible for these folks and providing essential services.

We've got everything stabilized, ... I think we've gotten just about all of the evacuees that we expected to get over the next couple of days. Right now, we're focusing on making things as comfortable as possible for these folks and providing essential services.