Misguided Focus Quotes

The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

Digital, it is not the destination.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned perhaps into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away. I'm looking for the truth." And so it goes away. Puzzling.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

I think so many times in our society we focus so much on just the end result; when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal.

Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!

'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist.

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

The Right is incredibly deft at getting earnest about all the wrong things.

Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.