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• That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.

  Kasey Keller

  Ready, Travesty, Has Beens

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• We must stop concentrating on our differences and look for what we have in common.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Differences, Looks, Common

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• We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world.

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Differences, Focus, Full Potential

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• Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him. A great number of Christian workers worship their work. The only concern of Christian workers should be their concentration on God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Numbers, Causes

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.

  Deke Slayton

  Stars, Future, Years

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• The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Differences, Way

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.

  Michael Korda

  Keys, Doors, Accomplishment

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• This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in a brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. It aims to lighten the task of instructor and student by concentrating attention (in Chapters II and III) on a few essentials, the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. The numbers of the sections may be used as references in correcting manuscript.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Book, Practice, Numbers

  William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, Lulu.com

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• I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

  Russell Crowe

  Kind, Fame, Knows

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• I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.

  Sonu Nigam

  Looks, Levels

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• The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

  Dan Millman

  Fighting, Secret, Energy

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• If you're concentrating on climbing , you can't be concentrating on money and cars and houses and wives and boyfriends. And when you come back to deal with them, you have a better view of their reliative importance. Climbing puts things in perspective again.

  Jeff Lowe

  Climbing, Views, Wife

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• Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Unique, Expression

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• Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Habit, Dependable

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

  Paulo Coelho

  Music, Eye, People

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• Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.

  William Deresiewicz

  Mean, Thinking, Ideas

  "Solitude and Leadership" by William Deresiewicz, theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2010.

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• I got strep throat last week and finished my antibiotics on the Wednesday before coming here, so yesterday was my first day off antibiotics. They take a lot out of you, but it was kind of an advantage ... Instead of concentrating on everything, I was concentrating more on the breathing and relaxing. That also really helped me.

  Gabrielle Daleman

  Breathing, Yesterday, Days Off

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• Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Eagles, Sky, Space

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.98, Tharpa Publications US

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• As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Focus, How You Feel

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2012

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• By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

  Bruno Walter

  Technique, Doe, Precision

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• We assert then that nothing has been accomplished without interest on the part of the actors; and — if interest be called passion, inasmuch as the whole individuality, to the neglect of all other actual or possible interests and claims, is devoted to an object with every fibre of volition, concentrating all its desires and powers upon it — we may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the World has been accomplished without passion.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Passion, Individuality, Desire

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Aakash Singh, Rimina Mohapatra (2008). “Reading Hegel: The Introductions”, p.124, re.press

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• The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Character, Use

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• I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Play, Piano, Worry

  "Eddie Redmayne and Emma Stone on Acting, Fame and Protecting Their Privacy". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2015.

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• Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Causes

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.

  Khem Veasna

  Thinking, May, Again And Again

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