Petra Nemcova Quotes
If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.
Quotes to Explore
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
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Establish with all of your powers a union with your fellows and brothers in religion that is stronger than the union of the worldly!
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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In my experience, 'SNL' has Lorne Michaels, who is, you know, the captain of the ship and gives the show direction and a singular focus, whereas 'MadTV' - even in my 13 episodes there - had maybe one too many cooks and was a bit more chaotic creatively.
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My view is that, as management, the focus has to be on having a strategy and executing it. As you do the strategy and execution, it is important to communicate it consistently.
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We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
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As an actor you're used to being the focus of attention.
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The focus of my research is how secular movements originated in West Asian countries and subsequently changed to pan-Islamic movements. The role of Western countries in this aspect is also a part of the research.
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The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.
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If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.
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People, including me, can get so detached from everything, but when you can focus on a defined place, a home, it gets you back in touch.
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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Brands mean different things for different generations.
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That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.
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The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.
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If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.
