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focus
in
The Last Lecture
(Edited)

I knew for sure that I didn't want the lecture to focus on my cancer.
Part 1

focus = concentrate
Steve and I kept going through the PowerPoint, with Steve helping me focus.
Part 1
He was more focused on the grandest ideals and saw equality as the greatest of goals.
Part 2

focused = concentrating
In fact, over time, my bedroom became the focal point of her house tour when anyone came to visit.
Part 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

focused = concentrating
Jai tries to focus on each day, rather than the negative things down the road.
Part 3

focus = concentrate
At the same time, she tries to focus on our happiest times.
Part 3
I'd say that to students as a reminder not to focus on little issues, while ignoring the major ones.
Part 5 *
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

focused = concentrating
They said I was too focused on poring over data, too insistent on approaching things scientifically rather than emotionally.
Part 5

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

focus = concentrate
I'm focused more on what they're going to lose than on what I'm going to lose.
Part 6

focused = concentrating
Patients get to focus on themselves.
Part 6

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
Looking offstage, I asked: "Do we have a concrete example of focusing on somebody else over there?"
Part 6

focusing = concentrating
We've gotten through in part by focusing on the tasks at hand.
Part 6

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(1) (focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.)
to direct attention or effort toward a single thing; or the ability to do so without getting distracted
(2) (focus as in: The focus of our study is...)
where attention is concentrated or directed
(3) (focus as in: bring into focus; or out of focus)
a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly; or an adjustment made to permit a clear view
(4) (focus as with technical usage)
technical usage typically involves some sense of center or concentration such as:
- physics — a point where things come together such as the point where light rays meet
- geometry — a fixed reference point (as of a parabola)
- geology — the point of origin of an earthquake
See a comprehensive dictionary for other less common meanings.
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

focus in The Last Lecture (Edited)

focus
in
The Last Lecture
(Edited)