So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.
~By Shirley Knight ~
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
I'm only going to be running the Pro Class this season, that way I can focus on the Pro Championship.
~By Ben Jackson ~
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 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 ~
You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.
~By Eric Cantor ~
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 ~
I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up.
~By Ben Quayle ~
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
~By Tom Coburn ~
In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.
~By Mel Martinez ~
President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.
~By Jay Inslee ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.
~By Elizabeth Moon ~
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 ~
I think I'm a focus for international attention.
~By Sting ~
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 ~
I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.
~By Dick Gephardt ~
Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.
~By Debra Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
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 ~
I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.
~By John Pistole ~
I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.
~By Morris Chestnut ~
Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.
~By Crystal Gayle ~
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 ~
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 ~
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
~By Theodore Sturgeon ~
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 ~
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
~By Jim Carrey ~
The Green Lantern is a unique superhero because it's not that he's super that is his focus; it's that he's a man. He's very human. That's his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.
~By Blake Lively ~
And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.
~By Rosanne Cash ~
The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
~By Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ~
But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.
~By John Abizaid ~
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that today I know what I want. That's the problem with perspective, as well as focus and concentration.
~By Nick Cave ~
I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.
~By Jeremy Renner ~
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
~By Mike McCready ~
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
~By Jennifer Connelly ~
Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.
~By Roger Wicker ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
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 ~
I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
~By Harrison Ford ~
It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.
~By Joan Blades ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.
~By Mickey Rourke ~
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 ~
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.
~By John W. Snow ~
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 ~
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
~By William Pollard ~
I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
~By Will Smith ~
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 ~
There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.
~By Trent Dilfer ~
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 ~
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~By Dalai Lama ~
I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does.
~By Jim Jarmusch ~
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 ~
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.
~By Christopher Darden ~
It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
~By Bob Graham ~
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 ~
Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
~By Denis Waitley ~
Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really.
~By Tyler Christopher ~
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.
~By Doc Severinsen ~
But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.
~By Robert Mueller ~
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
~By Nicholas D. Kristof ~
And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.
~By Claire Danes ~
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
~By Harrison Ford ~
Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
~By Betty Buckley ~
My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.
~By Estelle Morris ~
It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys focused and committed to a task. That group dynamic, and then helping them to grow as people and basketball players.
~By Isaiah Thomas ~
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 think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.
~By James Daly ~
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 ~
The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
There's a focus that hasn't been there for ages and ages and some American bands are sounding quite English like they did in the late 70s and early 80s.
~By Graham Coxon ~
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 ~
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better.
~By Tony Parker ~
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme.
~By Mark Edwards ~
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
~By David McCullough ~
But when you're beginning, you should try to focus on something you love and your own way of doing things.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
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 ~
Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
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 ~
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
We wanted to get everyone back focused on the fact we are playing live again. It really does sound great.
~By Andy Taylor ~
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
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