PAGE B7 Sports FOR THE DEVILS' MANAGER, PLEASURE IN BEATING RANGERS While habitually focused on the next task -- beating the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup finals -- New Jersey General Manager Lou Lamoriello cannot resist looking back just a little to savor the Devils' N.H.L. playoff victory over the rival New York Rangers.
But the truth is that many people are their own worst critic, habitually focusing on what they haven't done well rather than on all that they have.
For a White House that puts so much emphasis on strict message control, this is a curious state of affairs: a heavy-handed attitude toward unauthorized stories, a rather destructive campaign of apparently authorized leaks, and a habitually inward focus that leaves the country in the dark for long stretches of time.
A football coach named Tony Dungy propelled one of the worst teams in the N.F.L. to the Super Bowl by focusing on how his players habitually reacted to on-field cues.
29 Sargeant found that highly rated (by 360° evaluation) physicians maintained this dual purpose mindset of taking care of patients, focusing on patient outcomes while habitually generating learning.
The students, many of them potential voters, presented the opportunity for an on-site focus group and — being young, impressionable, and habitually less cynical than the press gaggle downstairs — a more receptive audience for unannounced visits from the candidates.
Levine habitually emphasized the Wagnerian-Mahlerian aspect; Koenigs muted some of the lushness, focussing on incisive rhythm and songful phrasing.
Over half of drivers' mind wandering reports were related to things they saw or heard, suggesting that although they are not directly focused on driving all of the time, they frequently and habitually scan the road and roadside environment.
His gentle, distracted performance is naturally off kilter in the manner of the habitually distressed, and it only makes one wish that "Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames" had more focused quietude and modesty and a less writerly posturing.
