The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
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 ~
To be the best, you need to spend hours and hours and hours running, hitting the speed bag, lifting weights and focusing on training.
~By Sugar Ray Leonard ~
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
~By John Starks ~
I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.
~By Al Franken ~
I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.
~By David Hyde Pierce ~
I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.
~By Donald Evans ~
As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.
~By John Olver ~
So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.
~By Shirley Knight ~
Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
~By Don Henley ~
Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
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 ~
I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.
~By Montel Williams ~
It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
~By Laura Miller ~
I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
~By David Knopfler ~
It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.
~By James Daly ~
Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
~By John Grierson ~
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
~By Omar Bongo ~
Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.
~By Debra Wilson ~
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.
~By Miriam Makeba ~
I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.
~By Payne Stewart ~
If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.
~By Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~
All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.
~By Michael Strahan ~
It has been the way of Rotary to focus thought upon matters in which members are in agreement, rather than upon matters in which they are in disagreement.
~By Paul Harris ~
The more prepared I am, the more I'll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.
~By Marilu Henner ~
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.
~By Jane Birkin ~
The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.
~By Ron Wood ~
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 ~
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 ~
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.
~By Martin Sheen ~
The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
~By John Clayton ~
As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.
~By John Engler ~
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 ~
When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.
~By Martha Quinn ~
The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product.
~By Calvin Klein ~
The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.
~By Stefano Langone ~
My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
~By Keenen Ivory Wayans ~
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 ~
Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
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 ~
This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.
~By Lorrie Fair ~
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 ~
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.
~By Frank Shorter ~
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 ~
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 ~
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.
~By Bruce Vento ~
There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.
~By Jason Kidd ~
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.
~By Jane Byrne ~
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
~By Sarah Vowell ~
We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.
~By Peter MacKay ~
I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.
~By Jason Statham ~
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
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 ~
The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.
~By John Ashcroft ~
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 ~
Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
~By John Carmack ~
School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.
~By Gro Harlem Brundtland ~
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
~By Scott Cook ~
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
~By Aristotle Onassis ~
Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
~By Bridget Riley ~
My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.
~By Donald Trump ~
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
~By Kary Mullis ~
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
~By William Glasser ~
I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well.
~By Donald Evans ~
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 ~
And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
~By Jason Statham ~
When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.
~By Lee Haney ~
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.
~By Rick Allen ~
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
~By Bridget Riley ~
The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.
~By Louis Freeh ~
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 ~
Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.
~By Laura Miller ~
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 ~
Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.
~By Terry Goodkind ~
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
~By Uri Geller ~
When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.
~By Sunil Gavaskar ~
Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.
~By Steven Chu ~
Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments - the American people really don't care.
~By Charles Schumer ~
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
~By Hans Selye ~
I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.
~By James Caviezel ~
And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.
~By Katie Couric ~
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 ~
It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
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 ~
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
~By Greg Anderson ~
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
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