"Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms."
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"Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future."
"We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good."
"The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is."
"It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own."
"Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it."
"You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other."
"I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a stallion, he is.” “Focus, mate,” Spade muttered."
"People who love our record love us even more when they hear us live?playing live is what it is all about and that is our main focus."
"I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that."
"I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people."
"Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well."
"It may be a lot more personally rewarding to focus on the marvelous new equipment, but the focus should be on customers - attracting them, courting them, rewarding them, understanding them and binding them to you."
"When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus."
"It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus."
"Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths."
"Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come."
"In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it."
"Nobody would ever think, "Oh, get into acting so you can live the straight and narrow path," but it gave me a sense of discipline and focus."
"Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it."