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I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

~David Hepworth

Topics: Absolutely Anything Attention Because Been Dissolve Done Everything Focus Getting Harder Media Never People Power Round Shift Think Time Try I Think

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What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

~David Herbert Donald

Topics: Book Came Closely Decisions Did Focus He Himself How Implemented Knew Like Lincoln Make Ought See Them Thought Try

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I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

~David Hyde Pierce

Topics: Concert Dead Dead End Death End Focus Fulfilling Going Had High High School Much Parents Pianist Potential Scared School Some Soon Sort Thought Too Too Much Up Were Whatever Would

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I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.

~David Ige

Topics: Challenge Delivering Education Empowering Focus Leaders Level Mandates Office Public Public Education Resources School Schools State Stop

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I think it would be more beneficial to protection of species if we could focus our efforts rather than paint a broad-brush area that is so enormous that active management is very, very difficult.

~David Ige

Topics: Active Area Beneficial Could Difficult Efforts Enormous Focus Management More Our Paint Protection Rather Species Than Think Very Would I Think

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It's time to focus all of our efforts on renewables. We will oppose the building of LNG facilities.

~David Ige

Topics: Building Efforts Facilities Focus Oppose Our Time Will

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I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.

~David Maraniss

Topics: Books Capture Cultural Doing Explain Focus Forces Geography Last Matter Shape Sociological Stand Subject Test Them Time Want Way Will

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My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

~David Mccullough

Topics: About Also America Army Book Century Eighteenth Focus Low Next Point Revolution Set States United United States United States Of America War Washington Year

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At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.

~David Petraeus

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I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

~David Puttnam

Topics: Absolutely Accept Any Confidence Country Crisis Easily Fact Film-Makers Film-Making Focus France Generation Get Goes Happened Happens Italy Kind Lifetime Lose Lost Mix Particular Refuse Very World Young

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