Focused Quotes - Page 12

• My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Brother, Littles, Able

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• Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.

  Jean Kilbourne

  Body, Advertising, Women's Bodies

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• We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.

  Astro Teller

  World, Should, Better Place

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• Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors listed above: the increasing number of vaccines, the large amount of mercury, and the inherent danger of the triple vaccine.....The MMR vaccine is also especially suspect because laboratories in England, Ireland, and Japan have found evidence of MMR vaccine viruses in the intestinal tracts of autistic children, but not in control group, non-autistic children.

  Bernard Rimland

  Children, Japan, Vaccines

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• Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

  Crystal Gayle

  Stay Strong, Hard Work, Married

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• I never was brought into the league thinking as far as, you know, statistics, things like that. We were really brought into the league in a team concept. Everything was focused around winning.

  Mark Messier

  Team, Winning, Thinking

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• The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Views, Community

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• All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

  Mark Viduka

  Football, Kids, Winning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That's usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.

  Michael Strahan

  Team, Winning, Focus

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• There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.

  Roger N. Walsh

  Inspirational, Wise, Selfish

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• My teammates, they keep you focused.

  Torrey Smith

  Focus, Teammate, American Football

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• I'm focused on going out every day and doing my best.

  Maria Sharapova

  Focus, Tennis, Going Out

  "Grand slam designs: Maria Sharapova's fashion statement" by Paul Gittings, edition.cnn.com. January 27, 2012.

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• We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sports, Mistake, Two

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• What helped me was working with my breathing, specifically, using my breathing to stay sharp and focused under pressure and then cool and calm when the pressure was relieved.

  Glen Hanlon

  Hockey, Breathing, Focus

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• Life is very short. You have to know what is the single most important thing in your life; stay focused on the mission; everything else is secondary. Don't wait too long for the perfect condition to appear before taking action - there is no such thing as the ideal situation. You create the opportunity and make the most of the talent God has given you. At the end of your life, you want to look back and say, "It's been all worthwhile. I have tried my best."

  Khoo Swee Chiow

  Opportunity, Long, Perfect

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• The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.

  Adyashanti

  Dream, Teaching, Reality

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspiring, Business, Different

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• It’s an old Orc axe, which means he’s been in battle. Orcs have killed members of his family, and he’s trying to find the Orc that did it to him so that he can give it back. But as the journey goes on, Bifur actually becomes more lucid. He becomes a bit more focused, and the journey is a bit healing for him.

  William Kircher

  Healing, Mean, Journey

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• Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

  Richie Sambora

  Believe, Eye, Goal

  Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.

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• A wine goes in my mouth, and I just see it. I see it in three dimensions. The textures. The flavours. The smells. They jump out at me. When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

  Robert M. Parker, Jr.

  Moving, Wine, Kids

  "Vintage year? Not till the Nose says so". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. Novemebr 19, 2000.

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• I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

  Deborah Norville

  Long, Lists, Wanted

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• Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

  Alyssa Milano

  Health, Eye, Tragedy

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• Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.

  Julia Stiles

  Jobs, Stars, College

  People Magazine, April 6, 2004.

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• I don't know if it's a stare or if it's something I do with my eyes when I'm really focused in on someone or something. Apparently it comes out every now and then.

  Michael Trevino

  Eye, Now And Then, Staring

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• I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

  Andrew Rannells

  New York, Moving, Careers

  "STAGE TO SCREENS: Andrew Rannells, From The Book of Mormon to TV's "The New Normal"". Interview with Christopher Wallenberg, www.playbill.com. September 11, 2012.

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