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?
It’s nice to have it recognised that I’m doing well and to have people saying good things about me, but I try not to take too much interest. I just try to focus on my own game and what I need to do to improve.
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.
I try to focus on what I love doing and if those things, those awards, those accolades, those tickets keep selling and coming like they are doing, I’m going to relish in it and live my life the best way I know how and be grateful.
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it’s a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
My aspiration is that M&M become one of the most customer-centric organizations in the world. If we focus on understanding our customers, we will be able to develop customer-centric innovations.
I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.
Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality – a concept of ‘what we want out of life’ against which we judge our experiences.
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.
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.
With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility – to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire.
Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.
I always wanted kids but I always thought I’d have kids later on in my life, maybe when I turn 30. I really wanted to focus on my career, but you meet the right person and your whole world changes.
When I was young, I too enjoyed the charm of the glitzy world of movies. Life changed for me after marriage. My priority and focus was my family.
There’s always going to be people talking so you just have to focus everyday and be the best fighter you can be in the Octagon on the day of the fight.
I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.
As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.
The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.
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.
I wanted to study to be a petroleum engineer and get my engineering degree and fight in the UFC at the same time. But unfortunately, to be the best I can be at the UFC, I needed all focus to be there, and more focus, also.
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.
A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.
When writing for the page, the focus is on the design – how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.
In this country, we move on after Election Day and focus on the transition of power.
I really hate relaxing. I’ve done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil’s workshop. I like to focus on something.
Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
I’m confident in my abilities and what I can do if I continue to work hard and focus. I don’t really care what other people think.
Expand the definition of ‘reading’ to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It’s the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won’t read shark books forever.
And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There’s not much you can do about that.
Most of the people don’t know that one of the great qualities of caffeine is it allows you to absorb nutrients, and it does it quickly, and so when it does it quickly, you focus, and when you focus, you think you have energy.
If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.
I tend to walk through life sort of looking through a pair of binoculars, and I focus on certain things and push out the rest.
If your brain’s not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I’d like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.
I meditate. I breathe out what I can’t control and focus on the positives.
My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.
If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the people as a whole rather than a privileged few.
It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.
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.
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.
At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that’s what we’ve sought to do.
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.
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America’s involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
I haven’t made anything I don’t believe in. I’ve always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I’m a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I’m feeling good about.
We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.
Occasionally I’ll be a producer for hire on a larger budget movie, but with Blumhouse Pictures, we mainly focus on micro-budget, under-$5-million-dollar movies. That’s what we’re in business to do, and that’s what we’re in business to make.
The focus of ‘Flower’ is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.
It’s easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
I’m gon’ drip forever, but I’m not going to just focus on that. That’s not going to be the title of all my albums.
I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they’re playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.
People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.
I focus on each leg and not what the score is.
I try to focus on my fans, who I know have been there since day one.
You’ve just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
When you focus solely on valuation and market share, you win some and you lose some. When you focus on the needs of your customers and help them achieve their dreams, you win every time.
Our thoughts create our reality – where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
