Focused Quotes - Page 14

• Some of the steps you take may end up being detours or out-and-out mistakes. By staying focused on your vision, though, you'll find even those steps useful in the creating process.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Mistake, Creating, Focus

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• A Creator is vision-focused and passion-motivated. To really live into your Creator self, you are called to do the inner work necessary to find your own sense of purpose-whatever touches your heart and holds meaning for you.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Passion, Heart, Self

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• Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning with our own professional staff, and leveraging their expertise to enrich the Arab community. We have embraced the concept of the 'knowledge worker' and have sought to empower our people and the Arab world's people to dream, to imagine, and to create.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Dream, Knowledge, Power

  National Seminar on Industrial Property and Technology Transfer in Arab States, Amman, Jordan, June 18, 2007.

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• So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Baseball

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• Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Health, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

  Bridget Riley

  Reality, Belief, Interpretation

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Effort, Waiting

  Max Lucado (2013). “You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times”, p.182, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I want to spend 100 percent of my time focused on what I think I can make the biggest difference on as the governor of California.

  Meg Whitman

  Thinking, California, Differences

  Interview with Teddy Davis, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.

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• Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Religious, Heart, Keys

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• The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

  James Nesbitt

  Fall, Firsts, Remember

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

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• The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become focused and concentrated.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Focus, Challenges, Attention

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.58, Penguin

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• I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Children, Dad

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• Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Children, Humble, Past

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

  John P. Kotter

  Organization, Leader, Feelings

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• There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Christian Inspirational

  "John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 17- 32". Annotated Edition,

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• God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!

  Johnny Hunt

  Christian, Eye, Target

  Johnny Hunt (2011). “My Daily Devotional Prayer Book -”, p.200, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.

  Katherine Heigl

  Watches, Ifs, Comfortable

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• Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory.

  Lilias Trotter

  Christ, Glory, Dare

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• I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

  Rodney Atkins

  Exercise, Breathing, Stuff

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• The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween

  Andrew Spano

  Sex, Children, Halloween

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• John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.

  Donald Pleasence

  Halloween, Ideas, Vision

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• A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of seeing.

  Allen Lacy

  Powerful, Light, Hands

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• Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Calm Mind, Imagination

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• Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success.

  Brandon Steiner

  People, Spirit, Helping

  FaceBook post by Brandon Steiner from Jun 20, 2016

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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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