Focus Quotes - Page 95

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

I have a great staff at the church; they protect me and allow me to focus on more of what I do best.

Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

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.

I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores are lined with shelves filled with self-help books. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and every other social media outlets turn our focus inwards, allowing us to fall more and more in love with ourselves, our thoughts, our opinions, our voices.

I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer

Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

I find it's better to focus on what's in front of you and to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I focus more on the spiritual or psychic gains.

The older I get, the more I'm drawn to the smaller films, but I still hope to keep bigger films in my repertoire. It's just maybe going to be a shift in focus, but I'll definitely still hopefully be kicking around in those.

Typically efforts to address values and ethics in business education and leadership development tend to focus on building Awareness and teaching Analysis. That is, we expose future leaders to the kinds of ethical and values conflicts they may encounter, so that they will recognize them and will have considered them in advance.

Time pressures are a reality of business life that cannot be eliminated entirely and that even can create a beneficial focus at times, it can be powerful to set aside discrete occasions where individuals are invited to step back, to look at their projects from different vantages, to consider input not usually examined, and so on. This again encourages folks to express alternative points of view.

I think it is fair to say that the end goal might be a demand yet your focus when building brands should rarely focus on this objective.

In a world where authenticity increasingly is in focus, consumers are seeking more than brands who focuses on revenue - consumers want to support brands with a purpose - one that justifies an emotional engagement.

There's a gap in perceptions between women and men. Women feel much freer than they did, but still, when alcohol is involved, especially, there's a lot of sexual assault, and a lot of confusion about that. So, we need to focus a lot more on what consent is and on the importance of affirmative consent.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

When we fear punishment, we focus on consequences, not on our own values.

NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.