Shift in Focus Quotes

Nine times out of ten it's a minor shift in your focus and your attitude that makes the difference.

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

When I do one thing for a long period of time, my attention is usually then drawn in the opposite direction.

I also believe - and hope - that politics and economics will cease to be as important in the future as they have been in the past; the time will come when most of our present controversies on these matters will seem as trivial, or as meaningless, as the theological debates in which the keenest minds of the Middle Ages dissipated their energies. Politics and economics are concerned with power and wealth, neither of which should be the primary, still less the exclusive, concern of full-grown men.

I'm getting older, and it happens. You don't care as much. I don't care about too much anymore. I've got to think about that a little bit.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

If you're not fully happy doing one thing, you try to do find another thing to take your mind from it.

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence.

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

The page has turned. Cinema is finished for me.