Focused Quotes
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You are a creator; you create with your every thought. You often create by default, for you are getting what you are giving your attention to wanted or unwanted but you know by how it feels if what you are getting (creating) is what you are wanting or if it is not what you are wanting. (Where is your attention focused?)
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I do believe that power needs to be returned to the states. I think that we've got way too much power in Washington. This is where I'm focused: way too much power in Washington.
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Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.
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I'm focused on going out and winning ballgames. Focused on getting better with the team every week.
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I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.
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Part of being creative is not being super-duper focused.
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We should always be learning or we will cease to be able to change or adapt. I think the best work on leadership today is by Ronald Heifetz. His work is focused on adaptive leadership.
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When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
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We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.
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I slowly began to realize that I had been wasting my time with a hyper-focus on why all the “others” were doing it wrong and began to release the icy grip I had on everything I thought I knew. I finally accepted that I would be much happier if I just focused on myself and taking my own faith journey seriously and stopped worrying so much about everyone else. As soon as I gave up on the idea of changing everyone else and exchanged it for a commitment to change myself, I saw my heart begin to change.
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We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean emptying our life of clutter such as wasted time, energy, resources, or draining relationships. These things can jeopardize our dreams by distracting us at a time when we should be more focused than ever.
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I'm all about job creation. That's what I've done for ten years as the governor of Texas, and that's what I'm focused on.
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Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence. If
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Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.
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I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
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I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.
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Imagine what a focused human being could do in a day to make a difference in this world.
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The only thing we focused on was going out and playing the way we play: physical, smart, fast.
