Sentences with phrase «not focus your attention on»

For one reason, his own interest was so centered in the new life in Christ through our Lord's death, resurrection, and living presence as the Spirit, that he did not focus attention on the details of Jesus» life and teaching.

Mayor Bill de Blasio urged reporters to not focus their attention on concerns being raised by a Bronx hotel owner and report on the bigger picture of the Legionnaires outbreak.

Why not focus your attention on people who actually live where you live, and who are also looking for a relationship?

Don't focus your attention on yourself or you will be missing the most important part of the interview — the meeting of the minds with the person doing the hiring.

This kind of writing is required that it be simple and not focus any attention on being over persuasive or trying to talk about what might not have been part of the process.

Not exact matches

In other words, politicians and the media focus on the wrong metrics — and even when different economic measurements get a little attention, we still don't get it right.

«I generally think that as far as privacy laws go the security breach disclosure ones are not a bad thing — they're focused, they only kick in when there's actually a problem, and so on,» Singleton says, but they can sometimes focus attention on the errant business rather than on systematic security issues.

A great way to stay focused on your business strategy is to not let other facets take your attention away.

In other cases, Silver argues, media organizations chose to not focus on the polls at all, but turned their attention to secondary or even tertiary events that had little impact on the outcome of the election.

In fact, paying attention involves two separate functions: «enhancement» (our ability to focus on things that matter) and «suppression» (our ability to ignore the things that don't).

«It was a painful lesson, but it's how we were able to pay to attention to new customers and new revenue stream, and not just stay focused on the old business.»

These days, the key to making the difficult process of business growth easier is to maximize your ability to connect with potential customers and to automate tasks that don't need your full attention, so you can focus on the ones that do.

«Society's investment in health is not well used,» he said, if we focus our attention only on medical intervention.

The company has responded with statements saying that it's not as dependent on drug price increases as critics have claimed; it has also pointed out that while attention has focused on changes in list prices for drugs, those prices don't reflect the actual cost for insurers, governments and other group purchasers, which typically receive discounts that aren't publicly disclosed.

They don't worry so much about square corners, neat piles and getting everything done exactly on time and to a T — they're focused on paying attention to what's most important for the business in the moment and that always taking precedence even if other tasks get left undone.

The best way to reap the benefits of a reputation for being ethical is not to pay much attention to those benefits, but to focus on the importance of doing the right thing — for its own sake.

Just don't let attention to the alternative stream overtake a focus on the primary business.

Not only might you be able to stop working around the clock, but you could focus your attention on higher - level tasks like networking and growing your business.

Not only might you be able to stop working around the clock, but you could focus your attention on higher - level tasks like

Black - owned companies aren't the only ones that need to focus their attention on serving women of color.

Also, I now send about 30 percent less email, and, while I can't control how much email comes to me, I only focus on those that truly require my attention, which is about 40 percent of my total volume.

When you read a book, your attention is focused on what you're doing — you're not distracted by a smartphone or a computer screen.

The story, which focused heavily on Nest co-founder and CEO Tony Fadell, exemplifies how an Apple - like attention to product, and a focus on building a platform instead of ecosystem can halt a promising vision.

Young people have many immediate financial needs that occupy their attention so they're often focused on the short term and not thinking about retirement.

If Trump doesn't win this election, we can see whether he's a true political believer, focused on his goals, or whether he moves on to some new role that's a departure from his stated goals but still keeps him at the center of attention.

But the scale of the losses meant that we had to sell the business to its management and focus our attention on markets where we could be the disruptor, not the disrupted.

But IRR tends to focus attention on short - term gains, not long - term success, says Palihapitiya.

However, the name tends to focus one's attention too much on the effect and not the cause of the crisis.

Generally speaking, though, his advice to clients remains the same: Focus on your long - term goals and don't pay too much attention to short - term volatility.

We are frequently interviewed, give workshops and speak at conferences about how traditional digital and social marketing doesn't work and it's time to focus on the relationships that deliver trust and attention.

Focus on ROI but don't forget you can't sell to someone who doesn't know about you or isn't paying attention.

I would definitely not focus solely on likes when it comes to Facebook, but instead on interesting and engaging statuses that grabs the reader's attention.

Startups should not focus too much attention on the latest fad in investing or try to force their idea to fit a current trend.

Here are a few common «lack of focus» examples I see amongst founders all the time: — Doing shit that makes them look busy, but doesn't have significant impact — Trying to do too many things instead of one thing really well — Getting things done themselves instead of taking time to build the team — Fundraising when it's not time — Acquiring users when existing ones keep churning — Adding features instead of fixing or removing the ones they have — Having multiple audiences, rather than one very targeted — Paying attention to vanity metrics or too many metrics instead of core KPIs — Following the competition's every move — Obsessing with getting up on TechCrunch (or other press)-- Attending multiple networking events a week

I got some good reading in yesterday and came across this excellent article by Toby Carlisle at Greenbackd about the state of the overall market and thought I'd share thoughts... Focus on Stocks, not Markets I don't usually pay a significant amount of attention to where -LSB-...]

Many first time investors sometimes do not pay attention to payout ratios and instead focus on yield alone.

Anyone who doesn't recognize that the Federal Reserve has done the same thing again — this time focused on the U.S. equity market and the market for low - grade junk and covenant - lite debt — is not paying attention to historically reliable data.

This is why, in strongly uptrending markets, we find it much easier and more profitable to focus on the price action and technical patterns of individual leadership stocks and ETFs, rather than paying much attention to whether or not the charts of the S&P, Nasdaq, and Dow are «overbought» (we hate that useless term).

The attention of global foreign exchange markets in recent months has not really been focused on exchange rates among the major countries (Table 4).

Unfortunately, historical criticism and hermeneutics combined seem still not to have brought us closer to Jesus, but rather to have drawn us away from him, focusing attention more and more on the church of later generations, in which and for which the Gospels were composed.

CNN: Survey: Catholics divided on political issues, as adherent numbers decline As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

I begin with attention to the philosophical underpinnings, not only in Whitehead but also in Charles Hartshorne, and then move to those who have built on this work to bring forth their own vital theological appropriations that inform the focus of this book.

Washington (CNN)-- As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

Except in those Matthaean additions which are generally agreed to be legendary, the tomb is not the main focus of interest even in these Gospels, and attention is concentrated rather on the appearances of Jesus.

Max DePress in his books on leadership talks abot the role of elders as part of the overall focus on: Respect for the future, regard for present, understanding of the past the future requires humility to face what we can't control; the present requires attention to all the people to whom we're accountable; the past gives us the opportunity to build on the work of our elders.

If, however, we examine the condemnations with an eye to the pattern of two Modernisms and two Thomisms, much comes clear — for Pius X had gone back into the mode of making lists of errors, but he focused his attention not on social modernity but on the doctrinal and metaphysical aspects of modern thought.

Gay people choose the lifestyle by focusing their attention to the ways of the world and not focusing on Jesus to learn His truth.

Perhaps a surprising find in the microscope can so focus our attention on what we see that our awareness of being tired vanishes for a spell, or perhaps the feeling of fatigue comes to dominate our experience so that we can not «keep our mind on» the patterns before our eyes.

But if God is — that is, if the cosmic Love is inescapably there and not simply a speculation or wish on the part of us men and women and if God is also the divine, worshipful, and unsurpassable One who is concerned with and acts for his world in all its richness and variety, then surely the significant thing for us is to focus our attention upon that One.

This did not lead to seeing men in aesthetic categories as with the Greeks, but it did focus attention on overt behavior.