Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.
Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.
I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in.
There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.
In the tradition of national income accounting, economic policymakers have typically focused on variables such as income, wealth, and consumption.
When I'm locked in and focused, I can do pretty much anything I want.
They ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don't privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That's where the Democrats ought to be.
Some actors need to be rattled and some need to be focused.
Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.
Recording and performing βReplay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.
China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
Ripple is focused on enabling a global network of financial institutions to use our software to create what we call the Internet of Value.
Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and development, advertising sales, and mobile platform development.
Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
CNBC is a very serious-minded financial news network, and what we've seen thus far from Fox appears to be not as investment-focused or financially focused, and that's good for us.
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
Backplane will provide a platform and tools for communities to socialize and communicate on a more focused level.
The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
Stay focused on the mission.