Ratatouille  - Quotes

 Gusteau:
[an illustration of Gusteau in the cookbook appears to a hungry Remy who just got separated from the rat clan] If you are hungry, go up and look around, Remy.
Gusteau:
[Remy nearly turns the page but stops] Why do you wait and mope?
Remy:
Well, I just lost my family. All my friends. Probably forever.
Gusteau:
How do you know?
Remy:
Well, I... [scoffs]
Remy:
You are an illustration. Why am I talking to you?
Gusteau:
You just lost your family. All your friends. You are lonely.
Remy:
[chuckles sarcastically] Yeah, well you're dead.
Gusteau:
Ah, but that is no match for wishful thinking. If you focus on what you left behind. You will never be able to see what lies ahead. Now go up and look around.
 



Chasing Liberty  - Quotes

 Anna Foster:
Dad! Way to go. I can't believe you had that restaurant swarming with all of your secret servants. You ruined my date! And now, I'm going to die before I ever get to third base... I mean second base. [Anna turns to see others in room]
President James Foster:
Anna?
Anna Foster:
I'll talk to you about this later.
President James Foster:
No, no. Stay. Pull up a chair. We were just discussing the G8 Summit in Prague, how to best persuade the EU leaders to adopt our plan for distributing humanitarian aid and medical technology to developing nations, but you had a bad date, so we should probably focus on that.
Anna Foster:
No, no, no, I'm so sorry to have interrupted. Excuse me. [Anna leaves]
President James Foster:
So third base is what again? [indistinct mumbling]
President James Foster:
Glad I asked.
 

Colin Powell  - Quotes

 Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. 

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Paulo Coelho  - Quotes

 Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. 

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Event Horizon  - Quotes

 Dr. Weir:
[describing how the Event Horizon functions] The ship doesn't really go faster than light; what it does is it creates a dimensional gateway that allows it to jump instantaneously from one point of the universe to another light years away.
Lt. Starck, Executive Officer:
How?
Dr. Weir:
[stammering] Well, that's - that's difficult to - it's all math...
Miller:
Try us, Doctor.
Dr. Weir:
Right. Well, um, using layman's terms... Use a retaining magnetic field to focus a narrow beam of gravitons - these, in turn, fold space-time consistent with Weyl tensor dynamics until the space-time curvature becomes infinitely large, and you produce a singularity. Now, the singularity...
Miller:
[interrupting] "Layman's terms"?
Cooper:
Well, fuck layman's terms! Do you speak English?
 

Arrested Development  - Quotes

 Tobias Fünke:
Do you see me more as the respected dramatic actor or more of the beloved comic actor?
Carl Weathers:
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going.
Tobias Fünke:
Yes, that's fine, but I would like to focus on my acting, Mr. Weathers. I did give you my last $1, 100.
Carl Weathers:
Let me tell you a little story about acting. I was doing this Showtime movie, Hot Ice with Anne Archer, never once touched my per diem. I'd go to Craft Service, get some raw veggies, bacon, Cup-A-Soup... baby, I got a stew going.
Tobias Fünke:
[pause] I think I'd like my money back.
 

Patch Adams  - Quotes

 Arthur Mendelson:
You're focusing on the problem. If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem!
 

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Notorious C.H.O.  - Quotes

 Margaret:
It's time that African-Americans and Korean Americans put aside their difference and focus on what's really important: hating white people!
 

Set It Off  - Quotes

 Keith Weston:
[in a romantic tone] Looking into those beautiful pretty brown eyes... are you cross-eyed?
Lida 'Stony' Newsom:
[smiles] No, your head is just small!
Keith Weston:
[laughs] My head is small?
Lida 'Stony' Newsom:
[laughing] Yeah, it makes my eyes go this way...
Lida 'Stony' Newsom:
[puts her fingers together near her eyes] I have to focus in on your little peanut...
Keith Weston:
Oh, my peanut! [continues to laugh]
Lida 'Stony' Newsom:
No, I'm just kidding. [laughs]
 

Dara Torres  - Quotes

 Michael wasn't on the pool deck, which was hard for me. None of my old Coral Springs teammates were around. Still, that old plane of cement felt like home. I folded my clothes and put them on the bench. I placed my water bottle under my starting block, and I dove in. Once again, I felt that ultimate state of transition, my feet no longer on the ground, my hands not yet in the water. 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Your motivations--get that promotion, throw the best parties, run for public office--aren't impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on. An individual's goals figure prominently in the theories of personality first developed by the Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. According to his successor David McClelland, what Friedrich Nietzsche called  

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.

The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.

By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.
 

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Pi  - Quotes

 Maximillian Cohen:
9:22, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood.
 

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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace  - Quotes

 Qui-Gon Jinn:
Remember: Your focus determines your reality.
 

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Collateral  - Quotes

 Vincent:
Lady Macbeth. Leave the seats. The light's green. We're sitting here.
Max:
[a car horn honks behind Max. The car whips around them to get through the intersection] Asshole!
Vincent:
You no longer have the cleanest cab in La-La Land. You gotta live with that. Focus on the job. Drive.
 

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Spider-Man 2  - Quotes

 Tour Guide:
Let me tell you a little something about Mysterio. People will say he's crazy, that he has strange fashion sense or that strange odors tend to emanate from his body. But why focus on the negative? Let's talk instead about his wonderful singing voice.
 

Brooke Langton  - Quotes

 "Keep your eye on the dough-nut not the hole" my father always said. Now, as adult, I understand. He was saying focus on what you love, your art...and not beyond it. 

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Mystery Men  - Quotes

 Vic Weems:
I think, right now, we should focus on the positive. Tonight was good.
Capt. Amazing:
Yeah? You think so? 'Cause I was worried it was, um, I don't know... [shouts]
Capt. Amazing:
pathetic!
 

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Mallrats  - Quotes

 
[the videotape of Shannon back-dooring Trica is playing on the big screen, with cheesy 70s porno music in background]
Shannon Hamilton:
Yeah, who's your favourite New Kid. Yeah, call me Joey. Oh, come on. Don't make me get loose. Yeah, that's right. Call me Donnie. Oh, girl. Oh, please don't go girl.
Jay:
Goddamn. This is one wacky game show.
Brodie:
[to the cops] Hey! That girl's only 15! [cops focus their attention on Shannon]
Shannon Hamilton:
Ah, 15. I thought she was 36! [cops are approaching him]
Shannon Hamilton:
Come on, guys. Tell me you wouldn't have popped her.
 

Bun B  - Quotes

 Bun B King of the Trill also one of the dopest. Whether the streets or on the mic, I'm dope and yes I'm focused. 

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Brian Tracy  - Quotes

 ...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

 

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Balls of Fury  - Quotes

 Maggie Wong:
[in Chinese] Focus on your balls not my boobs!
 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Consciousness, which is the  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 In a variation on James's recipe for interesting experience--the familiar leavened by the novel--Hobbs's  

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Finding Nemo  - Quotes

 Crush:
Dude? Dude? Focus dude... Dude? [Marlin wakes up]
Crush:
Oh, he lives. Hey, dude!
Marlin:
Oh... What happened?
Crush:
Saw the whole thing, dude. First you were all like "whoa", and we were like "whoa", and you were like "whoa..."
Marlin:
What are you talking about?
Crush:
You, Mini-Man, takin' on the jellies. You've got serious thrill issues, dude. Awesome.
Marlin:
Oh, my stomach. Ohh.
Crush:
Oh, man. Hey, no hurling on the shell, dude, ok? Just waxed it.
Marlin:
So, Mr. Turtle?
Crush:
Whoa, Dude. Mister Turtle is my father. The name's Crush.
Marlin:
Crush, really? OK, Crush. I need to get to the East Australian Current. EAC?
Crush:
[laughing] Oh, dude. You're ridin' it, dude! Check it out!
 

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. 

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The Brave One  - Quotes

 Sketch Artist:
Think about that first moment that you met her. Alright? Where you were, where she was. Tell me anything that comes to mind.
Ethan:
Uh huh... She had light hair... I think. And okay lips. And she was skinny. But she had some ass. You know, you could tell because... [pauses]
Ethan:
but, you're not doing the ass, right?
Sketch Artist:
No.
Ethan:
Okay. Urm... She had good skin. It was smooth. And nice breasts. Yeah, like they were little like Kate Moss' titties. But...
Sketch Artist:
[interrupts] You just try to focus on the face.
Ethan:
I'm sorry. [pause]
Ethan:
Hey, you what I do remember.
Sketch Artist:
What?
Ethan:
She was like on lockdown.
 

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Christmas Angel  - Quotes

 Ashley Matthews:
Well, first, while I'm halfway through my shower the water goes out AGAIN. So I have to wash my hair out in Dash's water bowl, so I'm running late and I smell like dog-water. I get to my car and, of course, it doesn't start so I have to run and catch the bus and while I'm running I literally collide with some random guy, lose my phone so I don't get the call that the positions already been taken and I don't need to get on the bus to the interview I'm already late for.
Nick Anderson:
[Chuckles] You washed your hair in dog-water.
Ashley Matthews:
[Chuckles] I'm so glad you focus on the important things.
 

Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 People who are diagnosed as having  

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 I don't judge people.

It blurs out the center of my attention,

my focus,

myself.
 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy. 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals. 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Arguably the mos intriguing characteristic assessed by the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), a widely used test developed by the University of Minnesota's eminent psychologist Auke Tellegen, is  

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The Perfect Sleep  - Quotes

 The Narrator:
If you don't like to focus on yourself, a rare quality, you might listen to others, an even rarer quality. If you observe and anticipate, you might just get something accomplished.
 

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9  - Quotes

 5: I don't mind having one eye. It just means I can focus on one thing at a time.  

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Never Been Kissed  - Quotes

 Josie Geller:
That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time.
Cynthia:
Damn girl... you are a writer.
 

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Gretchen Rubin  - Quotes

 ... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection. 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 However, by Sunday noon--not coincidentally, the unhappiest hour in America--you may have run through your options and wind up slumped on a couch, suffering from the Sabbath existential crisis. It's at just such unfocused, unproductive times, says Csikszentmihalyi, that  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Recently, the search for what he calls  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion:  

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Ricky Ponting  - Quotes

 I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Among these temperamentally unhappy campers are  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes.  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Horse Frightened by a Lion depicts a majestic stallion in a very different situation. Stubbs painted this magnetic masterpiece to illustrate the nature of the sublime, which was one of his era's most popular philosophical concepts,and its relation to a timelessly riveting feeling: fear. The magnificent horse galloping through a vast wilderness encounters the bottom-up stimulus of a crouching predator and responds with a dramatic display of what psychologists mildly call  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Research shows that when they confront a potentially unpleasant situation, such as some unfriendly faces at a gathering, these extraverts are apt to shift their attention rapidly around the room and zero in on amiable or neutral visages, thus short-circuiting the distressing images before they can get stored in memory. 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Because you actually might not know what activities truly engage your attention and satisfy you, he says, it can be helpful to keep a diary of what you do all day and how you feel while doing it. Then, try to do more of what's rewarding, even if it takes an effort, and less of what isn't. Where optimal experience is concerned, he says,  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 After he wrote The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz got fervent amens from European governments as well as individual readers for insisting that the management of your focus has become one of decision-laden modernity's major challenges. Many behavioral economists and social psychologists also share his concern about what he calls  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Once out of your cradle, you don't focus on the world in the abstract, perceiving things for the first time, but in synchrony with your accumulated knowledge, which enriches and helps define your experience, as well as ensuring its uniqueness. 

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh:  

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Winifred Gallagher  - Quotes

 Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to  

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