It just appears now is the best time to do so, ... I need to be able to focus all my time and energy to being the executive of that organization and not be splintered in other directions.

Our focus is on Grand Valley, nothing else.

We're trying to focus more on what we consider important issues instead of chatter driven by personalities.

Listen, I love old Madonna songs--I don't know one person who doesn't. But we want to focus mainly on this album. I think people love it and they want to hear it, so expect a lot of the songs from Confessions on a Dance Floor .

Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yourself. And only through knowing yourself will you be able to ask the key question of your life: What is is that I am destined to accomplish, and how can I make it happen?

The things of substance are the things that we need to focus on, but they are the things that seem to be the least substantive of all.