Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive. — Jon Postel
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. — Steve Jobs
Involve groups in the creative process and you inevitably end up with a pile of pleasing lies. — Naval Ravikant
Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth. — Ken Robinson
Small groups of people can have a really huge impact. — Larry Page
We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry. — Peter Senge
Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. — Scott Adams
...pay attention to what users do, not what they say. — Jakob Nielsen
I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups. — Arthur Levitt
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. — Margaret Heffernan
If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions. If you know the questions to ask, you can pull out the expertise. — Jeanne Gang
Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated. — John Kenneth Galbraith
When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good. — Dolores Huerta
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior. — Jakob Nielsen
Great minds discuss ideas, medium minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people. — Indian Proverbs
Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.
Out Of Focus Quotes
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here. — Mitch Hedberg
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning. — Carol S. Dweck
Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right. — Lysa TerKeurst
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain
Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. — Andrew Carnegie
We focus on the best, fun, and happy things, and people want that. Being happy never goes out of style. — Lilly Pulitzer
Focus on your goals, not your fear.
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for. — David Shore
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis
The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that's the kind of stuff you have to tune out, focus, stick with your vision and keep plugging every day. — Dana White
Competitors don’t put you out of business, but you obsessing over competitors does. — Alex Hormozi
Focus On Me Quotes
You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better. — Steffi Graf
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it. — Usain Bolt
Boxing has definitely allowed me to focus on something other than just creating content which I think we've seen historically can be so toxic. — Logan Paul
If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
I stay focused on moving forward and not letting stuff put me in a hole or make me feel depressed. — 21 Savage
As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me. — Nick Woodman
The whole thing taught me not to worry about the things you can’t control. You can control how you react and can try to make things happen as you want them to. I focus on doing my best to ensure the outcomes. And when it doesn’t go my way I have to work harder the next time. — Jared Kushner
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward finding the answer.
I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in. — Channing Tatum
Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand. — Elizabeth Armstrong
Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious. — Marian Keyes
I just focus on maximizing work in a way that works for me, which can sometimes mean doing less. — Paul Jarvis
Focus On Yourself Quotes
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. — Rick Warren
Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don't let yourself be overwhelmed. — Confucius
Close your eyes. Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease. — Andrew Tate
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Once you no longer need to convince yourself that the world isn’t filled with uncertainty and tragedy, you’re free to focus on doing what you can to help. — Oliver Burkeman
Don’t compare yourself to others. Focus on your own growth and progress. — Steven Bartlett
Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.
What works for someone else may not work for you. We all have different goals, incomes, and work ethics. Focus on yourself and create an investing system that works for you. — Jaspreet Singh
You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don't choose to be. — Iyanla Vanzant
Stop comparing yourself to people who started ten years before you. Focus on your own journey. — Russell Brunson
Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda. — Lauren Weisberger
Focus Quotes
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! — Joyce Meyer
Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier. — Rick Ross
Without Knowledge, Skill cannot be focused. Without Skill, Strength cannot be brought to bear and without Strength, Knowledge may not be applied. — Alexander The Great
A group of donkeys lead by a lion can defeat a group of lions lead by a donkey.
I think sometimes, when you're on top and all you do is win, win, win, win, win, you get lazy and lose focus. When you lose it opens your eyes and you get serious. There is always a time when it is good to lose, at the right time for you. — Usain Bolt
Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future. — Marvin Davis
If you only focus on your problems, that's all you'll ever see.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. — Winston Churchill
Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?' — Marcus Aurelius
Why would we choose to focus on problems that impact small groups of people if we could address the problem that impacts everyone – especially if, in doing so, we could significantly impact all those other, smaller problems? — David Sinclair
People know what happened in California, and they know it can happen again and again. They know that no group has passed more ballot measures than we have. They know we have a focused strategy. They know we have a budget of $150 million a year. And they know we're ready for a fight. — Wayne Pacelle
Groups cannot grow, unless individuals grow within the group.
Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of color and their constituents reflects their life experiences of social, economic, and political disenfranchisement. — Robert D Bullard
Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants. — Rhonda Byrne
The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on their own imagined oppression, today's feminists should be reaching out to women's groups in the developing world. — Christina Hoff Sommers
Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and Effort. And we control both.
You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group. — Zach Galifianakis
Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home. — Sergio Zyman
Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence. — Janet Napolitano
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. As Henry Ford said many years earlier: "If I had listened to my customers, I would have built a faster horse." Inventions in general express Shannon entropy. They come from the supply side. — George Gilder
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out. — Paul Keating
A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke. — Alonzo Bodden
Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies. — Rochelle B Lazarus
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40 to tell me how to do my job, I shouldn't do my job. — Roger Ailes
I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear. — Ralph Lauren
We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design. — Jonathan Ive
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion. — Stephen Harper
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. — Omar Bongo
I started a foundation, called The Khaled Hosseini Foundation. The mission has been to help the most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan. So the focus has been on women, children, and homeless refugees, most of whom are in fact women and children. — Khaled Hosseini
Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression. — Florynce Kennedy
I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that. — Shepard Smith
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. — Joe Eszterhas
When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts. — N. T. Wright
In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it. — Viola Davis
I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as I delve into their innermost motivations and live out their lives. — Vera Nazarian
My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job. — Glenn Hoddle
On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus. — Carlos Barrios
We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. — Jonathan Ive
The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house. — George W. Bush
My career, I look at it in a Darwinian framework. I'm going to do exactly what I want, and I'm going to survive, or I'm not. I'm not going to pander. I'm not going to change things. I'm not going to do focus groups. I'll live and die by the sword. I don't care. Because I couldn't live with myself. — Ricky Gervais
At least Donald Trump is not politically correct; he's not so concerned about rehearsing and focus grouping every statement he makes and that's one of the reasons I supported him. — Jerry Falwell, Jr.
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it. — J. K. Rowling
Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well. — David S. Ware
As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue. — Tom Colicchio
People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.' — Arlie Russell Hochschild
Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met. — Cathy Lewis
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. — Bell Hooks
We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important. — Kristi Noem
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. — Sydney Pollack
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them? — Dick Wolf
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences. — John Sununu
From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically. — Richard Branson
I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies. — Richard Branson
There will be increasing temptation to watch movies where you want to when you want to, and so I'm very focused on how we innovate Illumination Entertainment to keep the in-theater experience vibrant and urgent. In part I think it's what movies you're choosing to make and why those are films we feel are best enjoyed surrounded by a group of people. I also think it's continuing to look at things technologically. — Christopher Meledandri
Because we're on the outside of everything, and we're a small group of countries - Scandinavia , we have a unique vantage point. We are extremely good at focusing our ideas into art and music and design that fits a global state of mind. Being observers of the rest of the world allows us to express something pure that goes beyond borders, beyond planets. — Henrik Vibskov
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