All 50 Uses of
focus
in
Dune
- Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness …. focusing the consciousness …. aortal dilation …. avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness …. to be conscious by choice …. blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions …. one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone …. animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct …. the animal destroys and does not…†
Book 1
- Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness …. focusing the consciousness …. aortal dilation …. avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness …. to be conscious by choice …. blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions …. one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone …. animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct …. the animal destroys and does not…†
Book 1
- …moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct …. the animal destroys and does not produce …. animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual …. the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe …. focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid …. bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs …. all things/cells/beings are impermanent …. strive for flow-permanence within ….†
Book 1
- Now, all eyes in the room could focus on the motionless surface and see that it was the kind of globe made for wealthy collectors or planetary governors of the Empire.†
Book 1
- His mind focused on the dread Imperial troops, the killers without mercy, the soldier fanatics of the Padishah Emperor.
Book 1focused = concentrated
- He broke off, all his past circumstances coming to focus in one flashing computation.†
Book 1
- All the special training from Hawat and his mother — the mnemonics, the focusing of awareness, the muscle control and sharpening of sensitivities, the study of languages and nuances of voices — all of it clicked into a new kind of understanding in his mind.†
Book 1
- But even as he focused on this thought, his new awareness denied it.†
Book 1
- And he realized there was no single and precise thing that brought her beauty to focus.†
Book 1
- Jessica crossed to his side, looked to the left toward the front of the house where Yueh's attention was focused.
Book 1focused = concentrating on the matter at hand
- He saw that she hadn't been listening to him, focused on her words, wondering: Yes—why didn't she make him do this?†
Book 1
- Paul nodded, his eyes and awareness focusing on this odd woman in a sack-like dress of bondsman brown.†
Book 1
- Paul held himself apart from the humor, his attention focused on the projection and the question that filled his mind.†
Book 1
- An ornithopter replaced the carryall in the projection focus.†
Book 1
- Their attention was focused, too, on the mother, because they had heard she was a Bene Gesserit and it was obvious to them that she was like the other Lisan al-Gaib.
Book 1focused = concentrating
- Kynes fastened his harness, focused on the padded comfort of the aircraft—soft luxury of gray-green upholstery, gleaming instruments, the sensation of filtered and washed air in his lungs as doors slammed and vent fans whirred alive.†
Book 1
- The others grasped their flagons, all eyes focused on the Duke.
Book 1focused = looked
- He had focused on the code word: garment.†
Book 1
- Jessica focused her mind on lasguns, wondering.
Book 1 *focused = concentrated
- She closed her eyes, focused her awareness onto the approaching footsteps.
Book 1
- The toe was aimed with a precision that did credit to his long years of training, as though all of that training focused on this instant.†
Book 1
- A guard stood at the open rear door of the house, his attention focused on the lighted hall and men banging through there, searching from room to room.†
Book 1
- His attention focused on the distant Shield Wall where his secret weapon was doing its work.†
Book 1
- She rested her hand on her abdomen, awareness focused on the embryo there.†
Book 1
- Without even the safety valve of dreaming, he focused his prescient awareness, seeing it as a computation of most probable futures, but with something more, an edge of mystery—as though his mind dipped into some timeless stratum and sampled the winds of the future.
Book 1focused = concentrated
- He felt her hands holding him, focused on the dim outline of her face.†
Book 1
- His mind focused on the storm as he had seen it begin through the transparent end of their stilltent—cold dribbles of sand crossing the basin, then runnels and tails furrowing the sky.
Book 2focused = concentrated
- Paul focused on the glowing globe within the attitude curve, fought his craft back to level flight.†
Book 2
- The Baron shifted his gross body in the suspensors, focused his attention on an ebaline statue of a leaping boy in a niche across the room.
Book 2focused = concentrated
- Paul focused on the 'thopter's launching, shook his head to clear it.†
Book 2
- She focused on her weariness, the muscle ache that dulled her senses.
Book 2focused = concentrated
- He adjusted their internal pressure with a quick twist, focused the oil lenses on the other cliff lifting golden tan in morning light across open sand.†
Book 2
- The desert night focused upward with a feeling of lift toward the stars.†
Book 2
- Jessica focused on his action, but her mind felt blank with fatigue and the aftermath of terror.†
Book 2
- Her mind focused on the value of this troop, seeing what was revealed here about the Fremen culture.
Book 2focused = concentrated
- She lifted her binoculars from beneath her robe, focused the oil lenses on the distant people.†
Book 2
- And what he saw was a time nexus within this cave, a boiling of possibilities focused here, wherein the most minute action—the wink of an eye, a careless word, a misplaced grain of sand—moved a gigantic lever across the known universe.†
Book 2
- Chani stood at one side, her eyes focused on Paul.
Book 2focused = looked
- She focused on the words: "He gives moisture to the dead."
Book 2focused = concentrating, concentrated, or looked
- The young man focused his attention on the Count: a small man, weak-looking.
Book 2focused = concentrated
- Feyd-Rautha focused all his awareness on the door.†
Book 2
- The short blade was being forced inward inexorably, and Feyd-Rautha focused on the fact that a man could also die on an unpoisoned blade.
Book 2focused = concentrated
- As he focused on this thought, Feyd-Rautha became conscious of the eruption of noise from the stands and galleries around him.†
Book 2
- He focused on the fact that he had seen no clocks.
Book 2focused = concentrated
- He shook his head sharply, focusing his attention on the evidences that spoke of profound depth and breadth in this Fremen culture that had swallowed them.†
Book 2
- Jessica ignored Chani's approach, focusing all her attention on the woman in the litter—a crone, a wrinkled and shriveled ancient thing in a black gown with hood thrown back to reveal the tight knot of gray hair and the stringy neck.†
Book 2
- Now, Jessica felt herself at the focus of danger, knowing its presence in the watchfulness of the throng, in the silence.†
Book 2
- Jessica focused her attention on the Reverend Mother Ramallo, aware now that all this was happening in a frozen instant of time—suspended time for her alone.
Book 2focused = concentrated
- She focused on the psychokinesthetic extension of herself, looking within, and was confronted immediately with a cellular core, a pit of blackness from which she recoiled.†
Book 2
- This realization returned a small measure of confidence, and again she ventured to focus on the psychokinesthetic extension, becoming a mote-self that searched within her for danger.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.) verb: to concentrate, look at, or pay attention to
noun: the act of concentration, or the ability to concentrate
(to concentrate is to direct attention or effort towards a single thing)