Refocus
verb
To direct your attention or efforts towards something different.
After the disappointing sales report, the team needed to refocus their strategy on a new market.
Often appears as...
- refocus attention
- refocus efforts
verb
To adjust the focus of a lens.
The photographer had to refocus his camera to capture the moving subject.
Often appears as...
- refocus camera
- refocus lens
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To direct your attention or efforts towards something different.
After the disappointing sales report, the team needed to refocus their strategy on a new market.
Often appears as...
- refocus attention
- refocus efforts
verb
To adjust the focus of a lens.
The photographer had to refocus his camera to capture the moving subject.
Often appears as...
- refocus camera
- refocus lens
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Mental Shift
Refocus means changing your mental direction or approach towards something.
She decided to refocus her energy from debate to writing.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem Solving
Used when a plan or method fails, suggesting the need for a new strategy or solution.
The study group had to refocus their approach to improve their results.
Pro Tip 3/3Regaining Control
Implies taking back control of a situation by concentrating on a different aspect or goal.
I need to refocus on my goals after getting distracted by social media.
Pro Tip 1/3Mental Shift
Refocus means changing your mental direction or approach towards something.
She decided to refocus her energy from debate to writing.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem Solving
Used when a plan or method fails, suggesting the need for a new strategy or solution.
The study group had to refocus their approach to improve their results.
Pro Tip 3/3Regaining Control
Implies taking back control of a situation by concentrating on a different aspect or goal.
I need to refocus on my goals after getting distracted by social media.
Pro Tip 1/3Mental Shift
Refocus means changing your mental direction or approach towards something.
She decided to refocus her energy from debate to writing.
Pro Tip 2/3Problem Solving
Used when a plan or method fails, suggesting the need for a new strategy or solution.
The study group had to refocus their approach to improve their results.
Pro Tip 3/3Regaining Control
Implies taking back control of a situation by concentrating on a different aspect or goal.
I need to refocus on my goals after getting distracted by social media.
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Video examples
Gary Greenberg: The...
Now, the way my microscopes work is, normally in a microscope you can see very little at one time, so what you have to do is you have to refocus the microscope, keep taking pictures, and then I have a computer program that puts all those pictures together into one picture so you can see actually what it looks like,
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How do glasses help us...
hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Each of these is a refractive error. Nowadays we can fix them all with glasses or contact lenses, which work by refocusing light so it strikes the retina precisely. It's even possible to correct vision with surgery using lasers that change the shape of the cornea
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Autofocusing reading...
or has already lost something we rely on every single day. I am of course talking about our keys. Just kidding. What I actually want to talk about is one of our most important vision. Every single day we each lose a little bit of our ability to refocus our eyes until we can't refocus at all.
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America’s most just...
way to do that is by refocusing capitalism around the concept of justice where socially responsible corporate activity becomes just as important to companies as does making money so with that idea in mind we created a couple of years ago a not-for-profit enterprise
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How we're honoring...
to help shift a narrative. I was also able to get an established institution to question its own status quo. Little by little, I'm hoping I can keep doing this work, and continue refocusing society's lens so that nobody else gets overlooked.
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A new stock exchange...
of that so how do you how will companies kind of manage that against you know you can't you can't stop that from getting into the hands of investors so so what do companies do to kind of refocus how will the market help them refocus on the
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How Your Eyes Make Sense...
Our peripheral vision is very low resolution. We only see in full resolution at the small point of our fovea. But, we barely notice it because our eyes are constantly refocusing on what we want to see, like a high-resolution spotlight.
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Tim Matheson on Playing...
in his life when that critical moment where he thought maybe he would die and certainly a lot of people thought he was going to die it gave him a stronger purpose to come back and refocus his presidency and his life
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What if we paid doctors...
to prioritize staying healthy, in addition to opening up for sharing the health data on a constant basis. This change may not come overnight. But by refocusing the incentives within the health care industry today
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How better tech could...
left and right. And there's serious cost to this, because every time we interrupt each other, it takes us about 23 minutes, on average, to refocus our attention. We actually cycle through two different projects
Video examples
Gary Greenberg: The...
Now, the way my microscopes work is, normally in a microscope you can see very little at one time, so what you have to do is you have to refocus the microscope, keep taking pictures, and then I have a computer program that puts all those pictures together into one picture so you can see actually what it looks like,
Video examples
How do glasses help us...
hyperopia, astigmatism, and presbyopia. Each of these is a refractive error. Nowadays we can fix them all with glasses or contact lenses, which work by refocusing light so it strikes the retina precisely. It's even possible to correct vision with surgery using lasers that change the shape of the cornea
Video examples
Autofocusing reading...
or has already lost something we rely on every single day. I am of course talking about our keys. Just kidding. What I actually want to talk about is one of our most important vision. Every single day we each lose a little bit of our ability to refocus our eyes until we can't refocus at all.
Video examples
America’s most just...
way to do that is by refocusing capitalism around the concept of justice where socially responsible corporate activity becomes just as important to companies as does making money so with that idea in mind we created a couple of years ago a not-for-profit enterprise
Video examples
How we're honoring...
to help shift a narrative. I was also able to get an established institution to question its own status quo. Little by little, I'm hoping I can keep doing this work, and continue refocusing society's lens so that nobody else gets overlooked.
Video examples
A new stock exchange...
of that so how do you how will companies kind of manage that against you know you can't you can't stop that from getting into the hands of investors so so what do companies do to kind of refocus how will the market help them refocus on the
Video examples
How Your Eyes Make Sense...
Our peripheral vision is very low resolution. We only see in full resolution at the small point of our fovea. But, we barely notice it because our eyes are constantly refocusing on what we want to see, like a high-resolution spotlight.
Video examples
Tim Matheson on Playing...
in his life when that critical moment where he thought maybe he would die and certainly a lot of people thought he was going to die it gave him a stronger purpose to come back and refocus his presidency and his life
Video examples
What if we paid doctors...
to prioritize staying healthy, in addition to opening up for sharing the health data on a constant basis. This change may not come overnight. But by refocusing the incentives within the health care industry today
Video examples
How better tech could...
left and right. And there's serious cost to this, because every time we interrupt each other, it takes us about 23 minutes, on average, to refocus our attention. We actually cycle through two different projects
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Quote examples
Eckhart Tolle
German Speaker
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
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Jenny Lewis
American Musician
When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.
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Chris Cornell
American Musician
When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.
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Ariel Garten
Canadian Artist
I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.
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Donald Wuerl
American Clergyman
Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.
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Beth Phoenix
American Wrestler
I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.
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Harvey Fierstein
American Actor
It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
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Gillian Tans
American Businesswoman
Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.
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Patrick Swayze
American Actor
I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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David Bowie
English Musician
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
Quote examples
Eckhart Tolle
German Speaker
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
Quote examples
Jenny Lewis
American Musician
When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.
Quote examples
Chris Cornell
American Musician
When you become a parent, you leave a lot of things behind and refocus, maybe on how simple life really is and what few things there really are to worry about. And everything else can go by the wayside.
Quote examples
Ariel Garten
Canadian Artist
I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.
Quote examples
Donald Wuerl
American Clergyman
Our God who created all of us is the God who calls all of us to care for one another. I think that's going to be one of the big, big challenges of the future, helping refocus on the needs of others.
Quote examples
Beth Phoenix
American Wrestler
I got pregnant five or six months after I retired, and then it was off to the races! It was a complete change of gears, and I was refocusing my life on my family.
Quote examples
Harvey Fierstein
American Actor
It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.
Quote examples
Gillian Tans
American Businesswoman
Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.
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Patrick Swayze
American Actor
I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
Quote examples
David Bowie
English Musician
It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth.
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