Focused Quotes - Page 18

• I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.

  Debbie Harry

  Writing, Enjoy, Feels

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

  Payne Stewart

  Mind, Just Being, Helping

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• Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

  Buddy Guy

  Guitar, Perfect, Car

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• GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are occurring like corporate profitability.

  James Fisher

  Fall, Clouds, Corporate

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• If you are going to focus on a teacher, you have to be focused on the teacher and not peripheral vibrations that might be around them or it will totally screw up your meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Focus, Meditation

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• It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

  David Cameron

  Gdp, More To Life, Well Being

  "There's more to life than money, says Cameron" by Oliver King, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2006.

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• You have to stay focused out there and you can't get caught up in your emotions.

  Joanne Calderwood

  Ufc, Mma, Emotion

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• I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

  Natalie Portman

  Trying, Attention, Use

  "Natalie Portman on Her New Role: Giving Women Hope". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 7, 2008.

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• My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Eye, Vision

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I've been essentially not only deconstructing and reconstructing the material to make it suitable for the performance, but I've gone back and found some older material that's appropriate for the show and I've re-recorded that as well in kind of a newer format. So I've been pretty much focused on my own thing.

  Todd Rundgren

  Gone, Kind, Found

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Practice, Determined, Environment

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• I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

  Theophilus London

  Cutting, Hair, Focus

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• The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Teacher, Teaching, Risk

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.

  Ruben Papian

  Spiritual, Yes You Can, Long

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• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.

  Keri Russell

  Imagination, Use, Able

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

  Al Yankovic

  Attention, Bread, Bread And Butter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

  Jenny Hval

  Individual, Breakdown, Capitalist

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Long, People, Age

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• Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many miracles to be seen through a microscope as through a telescope. Start with little things seen through the magnifying glass of wonder, and just as a magnifying glass can focus the sunlight into a burning beam that can set a leaf aflame, so can your focused wonder set you ablaze with insight. Find the light in each other and just fan it.

  Alice O. Howell

  Glasses, Light, Agony

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• Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of writing itself keeps the mind active and focused on the job at hand. Usually I write in about 5 drafts, but that simply means there are 5 definite times when I go in a linear fashion from the beginning to the end of the book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fashion, Jobs, Book

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

  Paul David Tripp

  Heart, Self, Hands

  Paul David Tripp (2007). “A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You”, p.94, David C Cook

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• Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making thousands of constant decisions - focused, professional tenacity - day after day of keeping commitments to yourself and to those you make promises to. If you fail, it's all your fault. If you succeed, you deserve all the credit.

  Mark Kostabi

  Success, Art, Commitment

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• When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Growing Up, Average, Stories

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• Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well

  Pharrell Williams

  Fashion, World, Wells

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