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Focus Quotes - Page 52

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

"Grover Norquist: 'The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 9, 2011.

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

Gerd Gigerenzer (2015). “Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.

"Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub