Focus Quotes
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Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways to turn you mood around. When you find yourself in a funk, focus on what you're feeling.
G_Alan_Marlatt
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All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It's a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.
Doris Lessing
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That's no accident. It means you're getting your players to focus at the most important time of the year. It means you've got your team playing at a higher level because everybody is going to play at another level against you.
Dick Vitale
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If your brain's not right they have good people at the NHS to help you fix it and talk to and counselling to calm you down and to focus you.
Frank Bruno
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I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.
Jenna Fischer
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I have shifted my mindset in terms of how companies should... focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.
Brad Feld
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My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.
Claire McCaskill
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Focus on what you want to do. Don't be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you'll achieve it. It makes it fun. You gotta take risks at times. Risks pay off.
Mark Zupan
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Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
Maria Semple
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I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.
Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
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All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.
Gary W. Keller
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The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.
Marketa Irglova
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I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
John Abercrombie
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We don't focus on individual accolades. Everyone on our team looks at the success of our team as the most important factor.
Brady Quinn
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I would ask... of my supporters to get away from the personality conflicts that media tries to bring forward and focus on the real issues impacting the American people. And when you do that, I think the choice is pretty clear and that is that Hillary Clinton is far and away the superior candidate.
Bernie Sanders
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Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.
Jessica Savitch
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Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist.
Jennifer Lawrence
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We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the people as a whole rather than a privileged few.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.
Eliyahu Goldratt
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There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.
Jan Koum
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Michael Brown - when he lost his life, there was more focus on what he had done sometimes than what was done to him.
Angie Thomas
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Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.
Sabrina Salerno
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I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.
Ellar Coltrane
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When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.
Mark Ruffalo