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• The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all....It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well...you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.

  Bob Buford

  Believe, Ego, Free Yourself

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• Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.

  Ken Blanchard

  Meaningful, People, Missing

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• I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities sorted. It's not about money - I focus on my career and the kind of film projects I want to do. Film-making is a passion for me, and my mantra is that you should do what you love, and the money will follow.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Passion, Careers, Meditation

  "Shilpa Shetty: 'My spiritual approach to finance'". Interview with Mark Anstead, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 14, 2008.

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• I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Years, Mind

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• One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds.

  Djibril Diop Mambety

  Believe, Simple, People

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• I'm always amused by the idea that certain people have about technique, which translate into an immoderate taste for the sharpness of the image. It is a passion for detail, for perfection, or do they hope to get closer to reality with this trompe I'oeil? They are, by the way, as far away from the real issues as other generations of photographers were when they obscured their subject in soft-focus effects.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Real, Passion, Ideas

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• Instead of focusing on how big your problems are, focus on how big your God is! He is everything you need. He is the Great I AM, and He is the one leading and guiding you into victory in every area of your life!

  Joel Osteen

  Victory, Needs, Problem

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• If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.

  Emily Rios

  World, Want, Favorites Things

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• An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

  Jack Canfield

  Sleep, Successful, Next Day

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• If you chance your focus - you will change your life.

  Bill Bartmann

  Chance, Changing Your Life, Ifs

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• When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

  Mo Rocca

  War, People, Dying

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• In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

  Radhanath Swami

  Principles, Attention, Way

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• We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

  Derren Brown

  Pain, Shoes, Comfort

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• My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Crazy, Hair, Competition

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• Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.

  Merlin Mann

  Heart, Sweat, Suffering

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• We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.

  Pete Townshend

  Song, Stars, Memories

  Digital Spy, June 29, 2015.

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• Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.

  Simon Sinek

  Looks, Obstacles, Pessimist

  Twitter post from May 06, 2010

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• Focus on where you're going and you'll know what steps to take. Focus on the steps you're taking and you won't know where you're going.

  Simon Sinek

  Steps, Knows

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2010

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• ...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Spiritual, Memories, Believe

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• Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That's really what I'm called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.

  Bill McCartney

  Jesus, Purpose, Growing

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• Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

  I. King Jordan

  Technology, People, Listening

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• THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.

  Al Ries

  Law, Stronger, Brands

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• Actually, now I don't even eat that much anymore. If you tried to follow me now, you'd be in trouble. You wouldn't be able to follow through on life during the day. You wouldn't focus. You'd get brain cramps, probably.

  Robby Albarado

  Brain, Able, Trouble

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• I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.

  Sarah Palin

  Teacher, School, America

  Palin, Biden debate, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But, that's good too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.

  Stephen Lang

  Hitting, Lines, Mark

  "Stephen Lang Interview TERRA NOVA; Plus an Update on CONAN THE BARBARIAN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2011.

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