Focus Quotes - Page 19

• From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.

  Jonny Diaz

  Song, Writing, Challenges

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• My principal focus is finding great dramas.

  Colin Callender

  Drama, Findings, Principal

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think where Playground is heading is deeper into that marriage between stage, film and television, with the increasing number of people in the film business working in television, obviously something that we were very influential in starting and doing at HBO. And I think that that's the focus of where I see the company moving forward, continuing to explore that intersection of all that talent.

  Colin Callender

  Moving, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: deadline.com

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• I have to stay concentrated. I have to maintain focus and concentration. I can't get ahead of myself. I give 100 percent in training and in the ring. I always want to put on a great fight for the fans.

  Leo Santa Cruz

  Fighting, Focus And Concentration, Giving

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• In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

  Nicholas Lemann

  People, Interesting, Stories

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are more predictive than "school variables." But, having said that, we as a society can have much more effect on the school variables than on the home variables, so it's important and valuable to focus on the question of which interventions in schools are most effective and which are least effective.

  Nicholas Lemann

  Home, School, Important

  "Ask the Author Live: Nicholas Lemann on Higher Education". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Even when I illustrate multiple articles on the same person, the focus of the pieces are never the same, so I automatically get to reflect different ideas. But it doesn't mean that it's not a painful process. There are some really late nights.

  Noma Bar

  Mean, Night, Ideas

  Interview with Drew Dernavich, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2008.

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• The Cold War is over. And our focus has got to be on intelligence, increased manpower, fighting internationally targets.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Fighting, Target

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.

  Ubaldo Jimenez

  Trying, Balls, Catchers

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• Losers focus on what they are going through; winners focus on what they are going to.

  John C. Maxwell

  Loser, Winner

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• Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Saying Yes, Doe

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.

  Brian Tracy

  Priorities, Important, Negative

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time”, p.120, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whatever happens to me during the course of my life - physically, socially, or financially - I can always choose to focus on giving.  When I'm in that state, nothing else matters.  I cease to exist as a separate being and merge into an expression of divine oneness.

  Steve Pavlina

  Expression, Oneness, Giving

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• It has been asserted that there is a separate species on the earth to correspond with each one of the stars. Now if the earth provides in each species a focus for the action of each star, why may not a similar provision be made among other heavenly bodies that are subject to the action of their fellows?

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Stars, Body, Earth

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• My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.

  Andruw Jones

  Littles, Middle, Late

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• I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

  Landon Donovan

  Pride, Helping Someone, Pleasure

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• We focus on what we do right, we learn from what we did wrong, we move onto the next day that's what prepares us, that's what makes us strong?

  Andrew McCutchen

  Strong, Moving, Next Day

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• My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

  Frank Thomas

  Giving, Individual, Rings

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• I just try to focus on the basketball game and not get caught up in all the media.

  Lamar Odom

  Basketball, Media, Games

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• There are always things to improve on. I want to improve on my defense, and you can never be a perfect hitter. I want to focus on just playing more and being able to improve on all parts of my game.

  Mark Teixeira

  Games, Perfect, Defense

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• You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus on in a new way - the stuff that's very small and mundane that happens in a person's life when they're in a hotel room. There's more interest because you're seeing a puppet do things that you're very familiar with that you might not notice if it was a human doing it.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Feelings, Puppets, Want

  "Immersed in Movies: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Talk ‘Anomalisa’ and Adult Stop-Motion". Interview with Bill Desowitz, blogs.indiewire.com. November 16, 2015.

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• A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to look at the wall in an attempt to avoid it. But if you keep focusing on what you fear, that's exactly where you'll end up. Professional racers know that we unconsciously steer in the direction of our focus, so with their lives on the line, they turn their focus away from the wall and towards the open track.

  Tony Robbins

  Wall, Track, Car

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 23, 2015

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• Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future
  And focus intelligently on the present.
  This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Regret, Past, Anxiety

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• Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

  John Updike

  Easter, Boston, Eggs

  "Fenway Park a big part of pop culture" byChad Finn, www.bostonglobe.com. April 1, 2012.

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• It's easier to be more vulnerable in a smaller environment. It's hard to expect your actors to be able to open up in that way and stay with the level of focus needed when there's so many people on stage.

  Sadie Calvano

  People, Actors, Levels

  "Interview: ‘Mom’ star Sadie Calvano discusses CBS’ dramatic comedy". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. December 18, 2014.

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