Focuses Quotes

Worldwide media exposure, which focuses on mainstream cultural values, has been implicated as a powerful force in shaping public perceptions regarding the value of thinness and hence contributory to the rise in eating disorders in non-Westernized populations. - Karen Charlton

When you have a new law like that put into effect, the public focuses on the issue, maybe drivers and people think a little more about their drinking habits. - Bob Thompson

When the death penalty becomes real, it focuses people on the issue. - Richard Dieter

When I'm resting, it keeps me motivated to win. Sometimes, if you're not winning and you get a game off, it really focuses you when you come back. - Henrik Lundqvist

What we're proposing is a comprehensive approach that focuses on the classroom. The difference is we start with accountability, we don't end with accountability. - Al Gore

What makes Dave so strong is his understanding of training and willingness to pay the price He has given up the other sports and focuses on running now. It's a little too early to talk about what he's destined to do. Later on this season we'll have a better idea. He's doing some advanced workouts and we will have to see how his body reacts. - Ed Pancoast

What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go
to the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to
build railroads across a continent? In independent thought
about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it
takes a coincidence of four conditions, or in Neil's view,
the simultaneous peaking of four of the many cycles of American
life. First, a base of technology must exist from which to do
the thing to be done. Second, a period of national uneasiness
about America's place in the scheme of human activities must
exist. Third, some catalytic event must occur that focuses
the national attention upon the direction to proceed. Finally,
an articulate and wise leader must sense these first three
conditions and put forth with words and action the great thing
to be accomplished. The motivation of young Americans to do what
needs to be done flows from such a coincidence of conditions....
The Tho. - Dr. Harrison H. Schmidt

We've had to shift strategies from a containment strategy to one that focuses almost exclusively on the protection of people and property, which means that a lot of these fires are going to burn for a substantial period of time. - Marc Racicot