Focus Quotes - Page 25

• Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

  Philip Mallory Conley

  Imagination, Want, Results

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• When focus increases, options decrease.

  Craig Groeschel

  Increase, Decrease

  Craig Groeschel (2008). “It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It”, p.52, Zondervan

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• Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.

  Chris Hogan

  Team, Leader, Unfair

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• I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

  Bill Gates

  Use, Calendars, Mail

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• I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.

  John Fairclough

  Jobs, Smart, People

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• We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Effort, Discovering, Solutions

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Spring, August

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• Enjoy what you have, live in the moment, focus on things you can change and ignore the rest.

  Joe Sacco

  Live In The Moment, Moments, Enjoy

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• It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

  Bill Gates

  Growing Up, Ems, Remember

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• If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Impact, Important, Want

  "Mark Zuckerberg's Letter to Investors: 'The Hacker Way'", www.wired.com. February 1, 2012.

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• We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Two, Worry, Week

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I've always thought that if my death was imminent, I would read. When I can't focus on a book, I tend to keep reading the same page. My guess is, I would've read, like the first page of Nicholas Nickleby over and over again.

  Paula Poundstone

  Book, Reading, Pages

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• The real focus at first is to just become a good stand-up comedian, and then when you get to a certain level, then they allow you to do other things. You feel if you're overwhelmed by something or if you're not.

  Jon Stewart

  Real, Comedian, Levels

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• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• I think of people as members of an audience. But an audience acts independently of every individual. It's an organism on its own. I focus on that living hydra in the dark.

  Emo Philips

  Dark, Thinking, People

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.

  Julio Cortazar

  Expression, Cameras, Essentials

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• I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Thinking, Looks, Magazines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes the only solution is figuring out a bigger problem to focus on.

  Dane Cook

  Sometimes, Problem, Bigger

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2013

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• ... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

  Dennis Hopper

  Effort, Cameras, Three

  Dennis Hopper, Nick Dawson (2012). “Dennis Hopper: Interviews”, p.172, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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  It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Trying, Want, Action

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• Fundamental questions are being asked about the future of the Eurozone and therefore the shape of the EU itself. Opportunities to advance our national interest are clearly becoming apparent. We should focus on how to make the most of this, not pursue a parliamentary process for a multiple choice referendum.

  David Cameron

  Opportunity, Multiple Choice, Choices

  House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions, www.publications.parliament.uk. October 24, 2011.

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• The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

  Cory Booker

  Choices, Limits, Energy

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• I enjoy both acting and screenwriting, in completely different ways. You have more creative freedom with writing because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

  John Francis Daley

  Moving, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.

  Eric Balfour

  Skills, Creative, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Independent, Pay, Wonder

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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