As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better.

Another study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view \volunteer\ as an important social role.

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

Cafés focused around psychology, history, and engineering are catching on, filling tables well into the evening.

In contrast, when individuals are involved in deliberate practice, they exhibit behavior focused on improving performance by the most effective means available.

It was focused on the garage and yard.

Most of us are more focused on our tasks in the morning than we are later in the day.

Our standard course guarantees a significant increase in your confidence in a foreign language, with focused teaching in all 4 skill areas----speaking, listening, reading and writing.

She had more difficulty keeping focused.

The end result is that we feel like we can't focus or that we're focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

They focused on football, basketball and baseball.

We were respectful of craft and focused on digging into the characters we were going to play.

We've all been there: in a lift, in line at the bank or on an airplane, surrounded by people who are, like us, deeply focused on their smartphones or, worse, struggling with the uncomfortable silence.

Students focused more on test scores.

Tony Little, headmaster of Eton, warned that boys were being faded by the British education system because it had become too focused on girls.

What's happened is, because we focused on creating that quality of life first, which enabled the residents to live here, what has probably missed the mark is for companies to locate here, he says.

As I discovered in college, when my hands are busy, my mind stays focused on the here and now.

How do you stay focused through the entire hour?

Research in my lab has focused on how food becomes contaminated, and we've done some work on this particular piece of wisdom.

The majority of previous research has focused on how we learn and remember new information.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

In face of global warming, much effort has been focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a variety of strategies.

Organizations cannot thrive without being focused on their desired end results any more than an individual can thrive without goals to provide a sense of purpose

Interest in this aspect of the settlement has focused on \orphan\ works, where there is no known copyright holder – these make up an estimated 5-10% of the books Google has scanned.

When Stephen Covey, founder and director of the Leadership Institute, explored leadership styles in the past decade, he focused on the habits of a great number of highly effective individuals

Much of the concern among politicians about the state of American universities today is focused on the absence of \real world\ education—which means preparation for professional and scientific careers.

College students focused on critical issues of interdependence between eagles and their habitats (栖息地).

Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.

Don't be overly focused on gaining consensus.

George Grune, a former ad salesman who joined Reader s digest in 1960 has his eye focused on the bottom line.

I'd be sympathetic if the union focused solely on higher compensation.

I'm going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I'm going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

It's no wonder these companies employ teams of people focused on engineering their services to be as engaging as possible.

Many of us, like Schwartz, struggle to stay focused on tasks that require more concentration than it takes to post a status update.

New research says that those who can't seem to keep their inner monologues in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain focused better and show improved perception capabilities.

Officials at the White House announced a new space policy focused on managing the increasing number of satellites that companies and governments are launching into space.

Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.

Researchers at small labs or at institutions focused on teaching arguably have the most to lose when sharing hard-won data.

Some people are too subordinate to others' opinions, too focused on decision consensus, too silent about their own point of view, too agreeable to take things on when they don't have time or energy.

The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like

Instead, they focused on communication: \He doesn't listen to me.'', \He doesn't talk to me.\

It is hard to shove for attention billionaire-pound infrastructure projects, so it is inevitable that the attention is focused elsewhere.

State governments are well accustomed to managing forests, but traditionally they've focused on wildlife, watersheds and opportunities for recreation.

This was all a bit bourgeois for Thomas Carlyle, who focused his biographies on the truly heroic lives of Martin Luther, Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte.

To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a distracted World, recommends building a habit of \deep work\—the ability to focus without distraction.

Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.

When our brains switch between being focused and unfocused on a task, they tend to be more efficient.