Local Focus Quotes

When I was growing up, I didn't know there was a world outside of California.

I love focusing on what we have to do right here in Lexington.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

All I really worry about is my little world.

Global vision, local win.

I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people appreciate my stories from outside this country, then that's an added bonus.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

The frog does not drink in the pond in which he lives.

Whatever initiatives we launch, we must always put the interests of Singaporeans and Singapore first.

I am not concerned about my foreign audience.

We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

But we think as people and countries, not as a species.

For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

I don't really worry what outside groups who score votes think. My job is to represent the people.

South Africa must come first in everything we do.

What is important to me is that I'm not accountable to and not controlled by party leadership. At the end of the day, I'm able to make my own decisions according to what's best for the community and the constituents I represent. It doesn't depend on what the partisanship is to the right or to the left.

True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.

I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.

Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

Just as with other great words, the word environment means different things. You might say that a cave woman twenty thousand years ago sweeping out the cave was improving the environment. Many people improving the environment think only in terms of the air they breathe in their hometown and the water in the aquifer under their hometown. My guess is very few are thinking centuries ahead or thousand of years ahead, but that's what we have to do.

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

I am committed and content to work for the people of Odisha. I have no national ambitions whatsoever.

For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you northerners never appreciate...is that Texas is so big that you can live your life within its limits and never give a damn about what anyone in Boston or San Francisco thinks.