That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
~By Buddy Guy ~
My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.
~By James Welch ~
Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused.
~By Cicely Tyson ~
As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.
~By Virgil Goode ~
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
I was raised a Christian, but I wouldn't call myself a Christian now. I think when I was younger it was easier to focus on the negative, nihilist vision... this is sort of picking up on the other half of the body, which is God and white light.
~By Billy Corgan ~
It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.
~By Dennis Bergkamp ~
My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
~By Taylor Lautner ~
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
Sometimes in this whole Medicare prescription drug debate, we focus on the prescription drug benefit, and I am glad we do because it is the first time we have ever offered real help to seniors, especially the poor, those in need.
~By John Shimkus ~
Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.
~By Trent Dilfer ~
They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
I think as far as kids go, you just have to work hard. Work on your skills, keep focused.
~By Frank Lampard ~
We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
~By Jeff Gordon ~
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
~By bell hooks ~
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.
~By Sheena Easton ~
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
~By Rod Blagojevich ~
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
~By Matt Cameron ~
It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
~By Tony Robbins ~
I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.
~By Raul Grijalva ~
I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
~By Scott Cook ~
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
~By Slavoj Zizek ~
I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.
~By Lee Haney ~
I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.
~By Gil Kane ~
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.
~By John Olver ~
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
~By Jock Sturges ~
I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.
~By Paul Pierce ~
Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.
~By Christina Romer ~
I'm like a decathlete who does all of the events he's used to, but is being forced by certain circumstances to focus on three events, and being forced to focus on events that he wasn't that interested in, and also weren't his strongest events.
~By Michael Nyman ~
I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that.
~By Jeffrey Katzenberg ~
After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.
~By Janis Karpinski ~
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.
~By Thomas Frank ~
So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.
~By Katie Couric ~
This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.
~By Lorrie Fair ~
You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.
~By George Dzundza ~
Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.
~By Peter Munk ~
You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.
~By Neil Schon ~
I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.
~By Mario Vazquez ~
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
~By Dick Wolf ~
The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
~By Howard Berman ~
What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.
~By David Herbert Donald ~
I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.
~By Harry Hamlin ~
The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
~By John Haggai ~
We wanted to guide the musicians, so we could create our own sound. We would never let the band just go in and play the chord sheets. We were very focused on what we had in mind for these productions.
~By Lamont Dozier ~
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
~By Jim Carrey ~
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
~By Jim Ryun ~
With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.
~By Greg Walden ~
Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
When we get involved in the ratings, then we're doing the network's job. We need to focus on our work.
~By William Petersen ~
I still manage to spend around 40 hours a week at work but it is a lot more focused on what can make money as opposed to what makes me look good in the papers.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
I think everybody's got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I'm actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.
~By Sean Bean ~
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. I don't spend much time fixing myself up or trying to look cool. I live like a normal person and even though I'm in a very high-profile business, I really don't let it affect the way I live.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
~By Donald Trump ~
We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity.There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region.
~By Mel Martinez ~
It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies.
~By Mark Lloyd ~
I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.
~By Diane Kruger ~
Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.
~By Ken Salazar ~
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
~By Denis Waitley ~
We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.
~By John L. Phillips ~
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.
~By Gerry Cooney ~
We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.
~By Judy Woodruff ~
I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.
~By Stephen Baldwin ~
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice.
~By Christina Milian ~
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.
~By Matt Damon ~
I am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.
~By Donald Evans ~
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.
~By Alan Autry ~
I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.
~By Gillian Anderson ~
So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.
~By Anna Lindh ~
The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
~By Barry Commoner ~
I'm very focused on "Dexter" right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.
~By Michael C. Hall ~
Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
~By Denis Waitley ~
When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
~By Joel Osteen ~
Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.
~By Janine Turner ~
Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?
~By Dennis Moore ~
We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.
~By Deval Patrick ~
A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it.
~By David Kay ~
The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
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