Oprah Winfrey Quotes
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
Quotes to Explore
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
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Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
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I'm not out to preach. I just live my own life. I'm very happy if I can help somebody - that's wonderful. But it's up to them what they want to think about it or what they want to take away; it's their business, not mine.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.
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The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
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I turned out to be a tough, smart kid.
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What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
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Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
