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"In any given marketplace, there's a triangle. There's a line of Dior goods at $25,000 that creates the sharp focus you need to sell $100 scarves to every woman. When [Design Miami] Basel popped on the scene, it proved there's a market for the top of the design triangle, which will lead the wide base beneath it."
"I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips."
"There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done."
"I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me."
"I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of poetry. Writing erotica became a road to sainthood rather than to debauchery."
"Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death."
"Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil"
"Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers."
"Whatever you focus on you're going to feel."
"Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead."
"Focus on money and we will make money. Focus on impact and we will make an impact."
"Don't focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat."
"If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms."
"I really love animation as a storytelling medium, whether it's traditional, cel animation, or CG, or stop motion, which is more our studio's area of focus. But I find that the creatives behind any kind of animation are typically very similar, and so regardless of what aesthetic they use to realize their vision, I'm usually pretty into it."
"I try to not focus on what people expect from me."
"Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?"
"Remove the fear, and the answer comes into focus."
"My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost."
"When it's time to focus in and play ball during the season, 100% of my focus is on that. When it's the offseason and I've got time to be away and I can do other interests - they don't conflict. I'm good at compartmentalizing. I can put everything in its appropriate box at the time and open it up when I need to at a later time."
"You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once."
