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When given the Gaza strip, those who seized control, instead of seeking out foreign investment to assist with infrastructure projects and the betterment of their economy, have been single-mindedly focused on the unacceptability of living next to a country governed by non-Muslims.

It’s Hard to Be an Anti-Zionist Jew « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

It does not help that much of the time my brain seems to only operate in two modes, dazzling euphoria or paralyzing anxiety, and there are nights when I am kept awake by my [obsessive/compulsive/hysterically circular and paranoid] thinking, going over and over humiliations both real and imagined, from recent times and the long long ago, much like a meth addict single-mindedly taking apart every radio and telephone in his prefabricated mobile home.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

Part of it was the other opportunities I was going to miss if I stayed single-mindedly focused on the novel redraft: the next Leviathan anthology (which has since gotten pushed back), the next Clockwork Phoenix anthology, and a nifty speculative poetry contest which my brain absolutely insisted I write something for.

Poetry kirizal 2009

Putting it even more high-mindedly, ought one not to prefer an author like Eliot, who really did give her whole enormous mind to religious and social and colonial questions, over a vain actor-manager type who used pathetic victims as tear-jerking raw material, and who actually detested the real subjects of High Victorian power and hypocrisy when they were luckless enough to dwell overseas?

The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

Young teachers need to learn how to record their daily encounters, explore their own motivations with specific children, think open mindedly about what might help a student improve, and understand what to do when they feel convinced they were talking to their students in a friendly way during math class, only to see on the video tape that they were talking at the children in a loud monotone.

Teacher: If I were Bill Gates (here’s how I would help improve the profession) Valerie Strauss 2011

The third factor is that for actual learning to take place, you have to consider factors and facts that move you outside your “comfort zone,” possibly to consider other viewpoints or facts that you might otherwise reject and to examine them open-mindedly, and not with a view merely to dismiss or discredit them.

Symptoms of Decline? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

Moreover, you simple-mindedly define “the rich” as the only ones who contribute.

Wonk Room » More Than 99% Of The Kyl-Lincoln $250 Billion Estate Tax Giveaway Goes To Wealthy Families 2009

America needs to be managed more openly and open mindedly.

Barbour: Obama, Congress 'the most liberal' ever 2010

The third factor is that for actual learning to take place, you have to consider factors and facts that move you outside your “comfort zone,” possibly to consider other viewpoints or facts that you might otherwise reject and to examine them open-mindedly, and not with a view merely to dismiss or discredit them.

August « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009

He said it was older hands from the Clinton White House against younger ones from think tanks and Capitol Hill, such as Dan Shapiro, the National Security Council's Middle East expert, Samantha Power, who has single-mindedly focused on human rights, and Ben Rhodes, who handles communications for the national security council.

U.S. Role in Transition to Color Future Efforts Adam Entous 2011