Focus Quotes
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Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'
David Crystal
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People often focus on the downsides of population growth but neglect the upsides. These upsides may even outweigh the downsides, making a larger population a good thing overall.
Ian Goldin
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I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.
Kris Kristofferson
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As soon as I made it about being healthy and shifted my focus away from the scale, the weight started to come off. I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit - and how I feel.
Alison Sweeney
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So many rich people, when they get into philanthropy, they have one thing they like, or several things they focus on. They pick a disease or a college or some kind of non-profit. They produce good results through that cause, but also they get recognized; there's some sort of monument to what they did.
David Fahrenthold
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Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.
Jenni Rivera
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Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.
Barack Obama
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My focus has always been on connecting with consumers in a meaningful way.
Keith Belling
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There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.
Amy Poehler
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One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
Tony Evans
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Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
Ellen Datlow
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The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.
Chin-Ning Chu
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One mistake is that managers practice position-ship rather than leadership. They focus on constituency, the people they need the most and depend on, only caring about how they are viewed by the leaders above them, thereby following position-ship.
Curt Coffman
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I'm quite into fitness, and I have a fantastic personal trainer who knows me, knows my body, knows when to push me, and knows when not to push me. She doesn't make me do 20 burpees in a row and instead focuses on strengthening my core, telling me we need to focus on making me into 'a tall giraffe'!
Poppy Delevingne
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I can be pretty dense about my own basic needs, when my focus is getting through the many small tasks of a day's work and a day's caretaking.
Lydia Millet
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I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.
John L. Flannery
