Focus Quotes - Page 91

The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the fact that my career was ruined, other peoples' careers were ruined. They focus on him as the victim.

We`re focused on physically securing the border. We`re focus on those who are coming to do us harm from terrorist states and things like that. That is our focus, and it`s on criminal aliens, people who are violent criminals who have not been deported.

I really want to focus on economic growth and growing the economy.

It is only as we focus our thoughts on heaven that we will correctly interpret life on earth.

The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history."

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own.

Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense and you can commit a lot and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy.

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

I don't like to think on obstacles. I guess that if you focus your mind on obstacles, they will grow bigger.

I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.

You have to control, focus and temper the strength. Uncontrolled strength is usually an explosion. Sometimes on the other hand let it explode and pick up the pieces.

I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that actors don't see. When you have one job, that's all you care about, that's all you're supposed to focus on. But focusing on so many different things, I was introduced to how hard everyone else works too.

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

The focus on creativity and independence exists in pockets of resistance in the educational system, which, to thrive, should be integrated with the needs and concerns of the great majority of the population. One finds them everywhere.

Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's important is not to focus all your efforts on the oppression, but to continue the constructive work.

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.