My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
There’s a sort of sibling moratorium when you’re establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you’re building a new extended family.
The Russian economy is a one-trick pony. They’re totally focused on natural gas and oil.
As far as writing and directing, I’m very focused on the thriller genre.
Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can’t see the films, my wings are clipped. I am no longer concerned about this, because I’m focused on making films. Perhaps one day someone who discovers sunken treasures will reexamine my 35 or 36 films – I hope it will be 40 or 50 before I die.
Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
The Army I grew up in was focused on high-intensity conflict against a peer competitor called the Soviet Union.
I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It’s been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship.
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
When I’m on really tough golf courses, I feel like I’m more focused because I’m really trying to hit the ball to a certain spot, instead of, a lot of times, when I struggle sometimes is just staying mentally focused on every shot.
We do care about control and privacy. It’s one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing.
I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying ‘Well, why aren’t we focused on these other areas as well?’ and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, ‘If everything is important, then nothing is important.’
I make time to exercise. It’s not being indulgent. I think it’s got a lot to do with your ability to manage properly and stay focused. There’s no doubt about that.
Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
For me, it was always that one extra job that you do to survive in the industry. I also realised that I was not well-sculpted as an actor because I was getting a lot of rejections. I stopped acting and focused on casting.
I love doing dramas because it’s quiet and focused work.
The reason we know as human beings that pictures have to be focused before you take the shot is because we know if we’re not focusing our eyes on something that happens, then it’s too late – you can’t go searching in your memory to find it because that light never struck your mind.
You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don’t look at the spaces between the leaves. They’re focused on the tree. I think there’s an awareness of spaces or it wouldn’t look like a tree to them.
As far as Ola is concerned, we are focused and determined to build a business that can sustain and be impactful.
I’m the classic absent-minded professor: I’m very focused on something, and meanwhile, I’ve left the refrigerator door open for hours.
I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.
It’s very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason… But that’s what’s great about music – however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.
I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I’m tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you’re heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
For me, the main thing is to continue to work, continue to grind on everything and stay focused.
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.
When you’re a litigator, you write so much, so many briefs, over and over again, that you’re kind of really focused on one document and have draft after draft, and really pay attention to every single word.
I wasn’t mentally prepared to take care of them, I was focused on my career. And then when I got to be in my 40s and I thought about having kids, I wasn’t able to have kids naturally. I don’t regret it.
I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I’m not a scientist and am focused on the short-term – what will happen in the interim.
No matter how much it hurts, you gotta stay focused on what you’re there for and your goals, just don’t give up.
I try to keep myself in what I’m doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won’t benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.
After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on stabilizing the domestic economy.
What are we focused on? Return on equity. We don’t need these great big tier one assets. I’m very happy with getting tier two, tier three assets; that’s what Glencore has been good at.
I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.
My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.
Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.
As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as ‘The Slap’ has, that’s great. The sense I get is that it’s not about me or my performance. More than anything it’s the subject matter that people are focused on.’
Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin’s domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.
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.
I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there – still do – and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine.
When you’re an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you’re really more focused on yourself. So while everybody’s out touring, I’m working on records.
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.
As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation’s doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.
A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it’s nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.
Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it’s because of the way I write. I’m very focused on the logical progression of the story, and every character has a role to play.
I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.
