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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
Sachin Tendulkar
You
Achieve
Mind
Rest
Energy
Active
Cricket
Frame
Background
Focused
Directions
Various
Diverted
Results
Know
Sportsman
Around
Foreground
Got
Off
Very
Any
Happen
Your
Switch
Right
Things
Things Happen
Need
I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Keanu Reeves
World
Giving
Filters
Background
Photographer
Performance
Stuff
Terms
Foreground
Camera
Get
Interested
Moving
Lenses
Acting
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
Ruth J. Simmons
Leadership
Relationship
Judge
Ego
Important
Everything
Fed
Leadership Role
Foreground
How
Very
Role
Place
Your
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Raymond Chandler
You
Man
Creative
Ego
Picture
Own
Nothing
Every
Meet
Kind
Objectively
Seems
Only
Sees
Could
Neutral
Never
He
Almost
Him
Because
Always
Foreground
His
Artist
Creative Artist
Ground
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Brian Eno
Me
Rest
Own
Background
Out
My Own
Records
Had
Putting
Idea
Drowning
Singer
Foreground
Making
Interested
Started
There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
Chaim Potok
Work
Strong
Early Work
Later
Background
Diminish
Religious
Some
Tends
Foreground
Very
Certainly
Present
Early
However much in the foreground depression feels, you are separate to it. This is going to sound cheesy, but I'd say you are the sky. A cloud comes and dominates the sky. But the sky is still the sky. Depression tells you everything is going to get worse, but that's a symptom. Don't give depression power - constantly discredit it.
Matt Haig
Depression
You
Sky
Power
Cloud
Symptom
Everything
Worse
Say
Tells
Constantly
Give
Feels
Cheesy
Foreground
Sound
Still
However
Discredit
Get
Going
Much
Separate
Of course, the attacking players get the attention because they score the goals, score nice goals, and those are the moments that remain in memory. But I wish that other players who are not in the foreground, who still perform well for their club or association, get more recognition.
Niko Kovac
Memory
Goals
Wish
Club
Nice
Other
Those
Recognition
More
Remain
Attacking
Attention
Perform
Well
Course
Because
Foreground
Still
Score
Get
Who
Moments
Players
Association
Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.
Donella Meadows
Politics
Political
Energy
Every
Analysis
Background
Case
Shaped
Well
Policy
Well Known
Forces
Known
Foreground
Self-Serving
Loud
Energy Policy
Two
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff.
Alfonso Cuaron
Home
You
Eyes
People
Other
Everything
Ears
Television
Characters
TV
Through
Environment
Stuff
Most
Because
Narrative
Foreground
Doing
Goes
Just
While
Much
Many
Things
Watch
Watching
Watching Tv
When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.
Max Richter
World
Kid
Possible
Futures
Huxley
Only
New
Foreground
Were
Brave
Brave New World
New World
Which
Really
Orwell
Two
Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background.
Ellen Ullman
Great
Mind
Great Deal
Thinking
Corners
Despite
Background
Machine
See
Small
Computer
Attempts
Contain
Over
Leap
Deal
Foreground
Misunderstandings
Brain
Human
Ifs
Skip
Buts
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.
Charles Stross
Work
Situation
Humour
Background
Response
Tend
Protagonist
Principle
Matching
Foreground
Being
Inappropriate
Much
Cognitive