Focusing Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light. — Roland Gift

When I started making my own music, I was more about recreating what I was hearing. I noticed that I had some control over what I was saying, and the effects that it's going to have on people. I wanted to focus more on the positive side of things, which are more in tune with my morals and ethics. — Lupe Fiasco

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world — Karl Taylor Compton

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing. — Ellen Pompeo

I never made love, only hate. Hate for myself mostly. - Ben Fieldstone — Donna Galanti

It's playing with the idea of what musicians wear when they play live, especially focusing on the evolution of what a musician wears when they first start their career, when they are young and wild, to how they dress when they become famous and more polished. — Renzo Rosso

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding. — Mason Cooley

I am worth something and I will be big. — Rebecca Black

There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you. — Masaaki Hatsumi

Shackleton's unwillingness to succumb to the demands of everyday life & his insatiable excitement w/ unrealistic ventures left him open to the accusation of being basically immature & irresponsible. & very possibly he was-by conventional standards. But the great leaders of historical record-the Napoleons, the Nelsons, the Alexanders-have rarely fitted any conventional mold, & it is perhaps an injustice to evaluate them in ordinary terms. There can be little doubt that Shackleton, in this way, was an extraordinary leader of men. — Alfred Lansing

Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no matter how hard-earned, allows me only a crumbling foothold on this steepening climb - an ascent whose milestones are fear and doubt. — Sally Mann