Sentences with phrase «rather focus my attention»

It does not lead us to look inwardly to our own values of music appreciation but rather focuses our attention on the text, which is of prime importance:

Because these days, I'd rather focus my attention on my kids or my fitness app and let my clothes match themselves.

I'm very down to earth, VERY EASY TO TALK TO, not into the things of this world but rather focus my attention on God AND TRYING TO LIVE AN...

Diller would rather focus attention on the $ 200 million or so in cash flow IAC generated in 2009 or the $ 100 million in smallish investments or the 25 percent stock buyback since the 2008 spin.

Not exact matches

«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.

Rather, «it's how they practice: with full attention, focused on high - quality work, and in chunks of 60 to 90 minutes separated by short breaks.

«They focused all of their attention on the product itself and the engineering, rather than what the experience is like for their core audience,» says Rob Jekielek, a director at the institute.

Rather than focus all your efforts, attention, and energy on your destination, Elise Mitchell explains in «Leading Through the Turn» how a journey mindset can positively affect your leadership style.

With so many brands competing for your attention, it may be difficult to figure out which ones are focused on social needs rather than profits.

First, Obama has now clearly indicated than the focus of his attention is the question of emissions from Keystone rather than spills.

Then focus your attention on the current tasks at hand, rather than what could happen in the future.

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

The approach of targeting poor performers was met with a favourable response from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which stated that «introducing a targeted [rather than for all votes at all companies] binding vote regime would focus attention on the most concerning cases and give shareholders the teeth to truly have the final say on top executives» pay.»

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).

In order to right the balance and place proper emphasis upon the importance of life here on earth, they have focused attention on the second rather than the first commandment.

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.

Rather than concerning itself with specific «sins,» the Emmanuel approach focused attention on the underlying causes of these symptoms — namely, the sick personality.

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.

The night before one announcement in October 2017 he sent a series of tweets calling for the investigation to focus on the Democrats, and sure enough when indictments were issued (for three people involved in his campaign), much of the media attention was on Trump's claims rather than the indictments.

Attention was focused to a much greater degree on the psychic state as such rather than only on outward action.

«19 Here the focus of attention is upon vocation as work, rather than upon the total ethical obligation.

Who I am is of no concern and my name, Philip, draws much attention from those who troll these waters and lurk for me and focus on me rather than these truths I have learned over decades of earnest and tear - filled pleas for God to show me what this world is all about.

Maybe this is why Paul paradoxically advised the brainy Greeks (2Cor4) to keep their attention focused on the eternal UN-seen (faith) rather than their own certainties.

They rule out selective abortion of defective fetuses, and they focus our attention on therapies aimed at somatic cells rather than germ cells.

Subsistence focuses our attention not on the fact that the person underlies the other categories of being, like quantitative and qualitative being, but rather on the fact that the person is an independent kind of being.

The focus of his attentions are players such as Centre back Nirmal Chettri and Syad Rahim Nabi, who rather than play for a club side, have elected to sign for IMG - R and take part in the new IPL Style tourament.

With automatic qualification for next season's Champions League all but secured despite the rather disappointing draw against Sunderland, Arsenal must now focus their attention on the FA Cup final against Aston Villa, and the Gunners midfielder Jack Wilshere has warned that the North London side must put things right in regards to form before the big game at Wembley.

Not unexpectedly much media attention has focused on Tottenham's «lethargic» performance rather than our own part in it.

They have issues in defence and midfield that need urgent attention and it is likely that they will focus their funds in those areas in January rather than spend another large sum on a new forward.

Furthermore, although rather begrudgingly, they no longer have the distraction of any other cup competitions meaning their full attention and focus will be lavished on the league from now on, not that you would have noticed judging by how they fared a few weeks back.

You mention the possibility of divorce in your comment here, but only as a problem to focus on as a last resort once everything else has already started to fall apart, rather than encouraging couples to concientiously pay attention to each - other each and every day.

Focus on the areas that need the most attention rather than trying to address everything all at once.

For example, if your child hurts someone else, focus initially on making the wounded party feel better, rather than provide your child with attention to reinforce the negative behavior.

This global effort seeks to shift public attention and awareness to the power of giving; to focus on sharing rather than consumer - driven holiday shopping.

We differentiated between computational approaches (either based on volume data, such as the number of mentions related to a party or candidate or the occurrence of particular hashtags; or endorsement data, such as the number of Twitter followers, Facebook friends or the number of «likes» received on Facebook walls), sentiment analysis approaches, that pay attention to the language and try to attach a qualitative meaning to the comments (posts, tweets) published by social media users employing automated tools for sentiment analysis (i.e., via natural language processing models or the employment of pre-defined ontological dictionaries), and finally what we call supervised and aggregated sentiment analysis (SASA), that is, techniques that exploit the human codification in their process and focus on the estimation of the aggregated distribution of the opinions, rather than on individual classification of each single text (Ceron et al. 2016).

Wife of the vice president, Samira Bawumia, has been asked to redirect her focus and attention on issues of national development, rather than constantly flaunting her beauty on both social media and mainstream media, unproductively.

The causes section is pretty good, but I would not pay much attention to the «views» section, which is overly simplistic and focuses on well - known names, rather than doing a good job of explaining over-all view points.

Analysts focused their attention on the OBR's decision to blame the recent weakness on cyclical rather than structural factors.

Sheriff Howard advocates that legislators focus their attention on the people who commit gun crimes rather than on guns — a test that the SAFE law fails miserably.

Analysis shows that as far as these issues are concerned Conservatives are the focus of attention rather than the coalition government — this helps to explain why Liberal Democrat support has not improved over time.

The wide media coverage the case has received has focused public attention on legal questions usually covered in the courtroom or the classroom rather than by the newsroom.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's fence - sitting before finally endorsing Clinton, rather than her primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, in the Democratic presidential race has stranded him on the fringe of the action as attention focuses on New York's primary.

But he says he'd rather focus on improving the economy, and says too much attention has been paid to social issues in the GOP Presidential campaign lately.

I'd rather see our attention focused on other issues.»

The 54 year old has raised and spent the most money, and during a recent debate, he focused his attention on differences with Kagen rather than his primary opponents.

That would focus attention on the Leader's support rather than a handful of opponents.

NIH backing for career training will have to not only inspire institutions to commit serious resources but also persuade potentially reluctant PIs to allow or even encourage postdocs to take time away from the bench for activities contributing to their own, rather than the lab's, advancement.If successful, however, this initiative could also focus PIs» attention on the fact that preparing postdocs for careers — and not having them merely provide cheap labor for research projects — is the most important reason for their presence in the nation's laboratories.

However, in disengaged families (in families where the marital relationship is strained and there is little affection), the children first focused their attention towards the threatening stimuli, but then, unlike the first group, moved their focus away from the stimuli rather than disengaging from them.

Two years ago, scientists suggested whales do this to focus their attention on the survival of their families rather than on birthing more offspring.

Eagles in flight are especially susceptible to turbine blades as they're attention is often focused on the ground looking for prey rather than looking forward to see obstacles.