All 16 Uses of
focus
in
The Last Lecture
- I knew for sure that I didn't want the lecture to focus on my cancer.
Part 1 (definition 1)focus = concentrate
- Steve and I kept going through the PowerPoint, with Steve helping me focus.
Part 1 (definition 1)
- He was more focused on the grandest ideals and saw equality as the greatest of goals.
Part 2 (definition 1)focused = concentrating
- In fact, over time, my bedroom became the focal point of her house tour when anyone came to visit.
Part 2 (definition 2) *focal = place where attention is concentrated
- I had just learned I would soon die, and in my inability to stop being rationally focused, I found myself thinking: "Shouldn't a room like this, at a time like this, have a box of Kleenex?"
Part 3 (definition 1)focused = concentrating
- Jai tries to focus on each day, rather than the negative things down the road.
Part 3 (definition 1)focus = concentrate
- At the same time, she tries to focus on our happiest times.
Part 3 (definition 1)
- I'd say that to students as a reminder not to focus on little issues, while ignoring the major ones.
Part 5 (definition 1)
- He was just so focused on his computer courses, being a teaching assistant, and a research assistant in my lab that he simply stopped going to calculus class.
Part 5 (definition 1)focused = concentrating
- They said I was too focused on poring over data, too insistent on approaching things scientifically rather than emotionally.
Part 5 (definition 1)focused = concentrating (on one thing and not paying attention to other things)
- And Dr. Reiss, the counselor Jai and I see, has helped me find strategies to avoid losing myself in the stress of my periodic cancer scans, so I'm able to focus on my family with an open heart, a positive outlook and almost of all my attention.
Part 5 (definition 1)focus = concentrate
- I'm focused more on what they're going to lose than on what I'm going to lose.
Part 6 (definition 1)focused = concentrating
- Patients get to focus on themselves.
Part 6 (definition 1) *focus = concentrate
- It happened like this: Near the end of the lecture, as I reviewed the lessons I'd learned in my life, I mentioned how vital it is to focus on other people, not just yourself.
Part 6 (definition 1)
- Looking offstage, I asked: "Do we have a concrete example of focusing on somebody else over there?"
Part 6 (definition 1)focusing = concentrating
- We've gotten through in part by focusing on the tasks at hand.
Part 6 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (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)
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(2) (focus as in: The focus of our study is...) where attention is concentrated or directed