Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of mind, the problem of consciousness is no big news.
~By David Chalmers ~
You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.
~By James Sinegal ~
There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.
~By Judith Light ~
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 ~
I prefer film and that's what I think I'm gonna put my focus on.
~By Sasha Alexander ~
We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil.
~By Rick Renzi ~
The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
~By Tiger Woods ~
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.
~By Alberto Gonzales ~
One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.
~By Ken Burns ~
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 ~
I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
~By Caleb Carr ~
I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.
~By Pete Maravich ~
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.
~By John W. Thompson ~
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 ~
You know what, man? I don't have time to worry about what people think. I'm focused on the youth of America. I'm focused on the kids who are dressing like whores. Because that's the message in the media.
~By Stephen Baldwin ~
The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
~By Howard Berman ~
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 ~
One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
~By Bode Miller ~
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
~By Christine Baranski ~
A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.
~By Sasha Cohen ~
And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
~By Allen Klein ~
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
~By Ben Bernanke ~
For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.
~By Jonathan Katz ~
I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.
~By Josh Schwartz ~
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
~By Greg Anderson ~
They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
~By Michael Crichton ~
All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.
~By Mark Wahlberg ~
Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
~By Bob Beauprez ~
Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice.
~By Janine Turner ~
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.
~By Bernhard Langer ~
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
~By Anne Wilson Schaef ~
I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.
~By Paul Walker ~
When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.
~By Lee Haney ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Barack Obama ~
Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.
~By Lawrence Taylor ~
Television and radio do a wonderful job in focusing attention on the problems of our society.
~By Richard J. Daley ~
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 ~
All the action, in semiconductors at the present time is in the new consumer applications, and that's where we have focused our activities since we started doing our own products in the late '90s.
~By David Milne ~
Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product.
~By Norman Jewison ~
Putting a stamp on things just helps you say, 'Hey, yesterday I was there, and today I'm here.' It's another step forward, and it feels like another turning point and an unleashing of creativity, and now I'm going to start focusing on the show and the production, the fun stuff that comes with it.
~By Shania Twain ~
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 do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.
~By James Caviezel ~
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
~By Mark Burnett ~
The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.
~By Bill Richardson ~
I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.
~By Stefan Edberg ~
There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.
~By Pete Maravich ~
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 ~
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 think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.
~By Paul Bremer ~
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
~By Augusten Burroughs ~
We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school.
~By Mary-Kate Olsen ~
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.
~By George Dzundza ~
Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.
~By Johannes Kepler ~
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 haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.
~By Charlene Tilton ~
Each feature I make is my focus at that time.
~By Richard King ~
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
~By Aristotle Onassis ~
Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.
~By Thomas Muster ~
My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.
~By Ernie Fletcher ~
You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.
~By Bill Nelson ~
I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.
~By Susan Estrich ~
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 was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.
~By Harrison Ford ~
My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.
~By Andrea Corr ~
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.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
~By Jim Davis ~
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
~By Jeb Bush ~
What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.
~By Bob Taft ~
So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.
~By Bo Jackson ~
Inherently participatory in nature, Community Video focusing on using video to enable communities to communicate amongst themselves as well as with others.
~By Ben Edwards ~
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.
~By Michael Bergdahl ~
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 ~
I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?
~By Alex Chilton ~
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 ~
Keep up hope for a better economy, more jobs, better wages, affordable healthcare and all the issues we have brought into focus.
~By Bob Clement ~
I think the biggest thing that we are going to be able to do is focus on training, practicing, working on my starts, and taking each race one at a time.
~By Ben Jackson ~
It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
~By Bob Nelson ~
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
~By Mark Twain ~
I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.
~By Fred L. Turner ~
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