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• When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.

  Vince Gill

  People, Kind, Back Burner

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• All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Running, Money, Interesting

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• People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.

  Teresa Amabile

  Gun, People, Creative

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• What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

  Julia Margaret Cameron

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• Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

  Bode Miller

  Change, Sports, Tactics

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• It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

  Joan Blades

  Time, Children, Issues

  "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.

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• 90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

  Patton Oswalt

  Art, Garbage, Painting

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• What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

  Arnold Palmer

  Mean, Focus And Concentration, Hands

  Arnold Palmer (1970). “Situation golf”

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• There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

  Judith Light

  Fighting, Rights, Finding The One

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• You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.

  Janet Napolitano

  Jobs, Safety, Needs

  "Secretary Napolitano's Remarks to the National Press Club". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 16, 2010.

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• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Mirrors, Objectivity, Subjectivity

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.289, A&C Black

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• That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.44, Prabhat Prakashan

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• My focus is that firearms are handled safely and that we can continue to enjoy them here in North America.

  Steve Kanaly

  America, Enjoy, Firearms

  "Uncut Channel 4 transcript exclusive to Ultimate Dallas". Ultimate Dallas interview, www.ultimatedallas.com.

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• In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Painting, Fixed

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• When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Balance, Purpose

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.22, Psychology Press

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• Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest... into which he has settled... Wisdom immediately appears... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Eye, Practice, Nests

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• We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

  William Glasser

  Educational, School, Thinking

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• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  Gavin Newsom

  Safety, Eras, Century

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• There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.

  Penelope Trunk

  People, Way, Quitting

  Twitter post from Dec 12, 2012

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• I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

  Fred L. Turner

  Running, Successful, Thinking

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• I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

  Lucinda Williams

  Song, Mean, Loss

  "Lucinda Williams enjoying success from a lotus position" by Eric Schumacher Rasmussen, www.mtv.com. June 13, 2001.

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• I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.

  Stefan Edberg

  Thinking, Tennis, Important

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• I have the greatest husband. The baby is my main focus right now. We're both so excited. I mean, this is definitely the happiest moment in my life.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Baby, Husband, Mean

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• I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

  Christopher Darden

  Moving, School, Thinking

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• Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

  Bill Frist

  America, Preparedness, Threat

  Congressional Record, Volume 150, pt. 13, September 07, 2004.

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