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• I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

  Anderson Cooper

  Wall, Funny Graduation, Unions

  "Anderson Cooper Quotes Goldie Hawn, Yoko Ono In Tulane Graduation Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• Human consciousness is now being drawn inexorably toward the same issues, the gaze of collective attention focused like never before.

  Anodea Judith

  Issues, Attention, Awakening

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• Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel engaged in an important, even vital and personally ennobling mission; their task dominates all other considerations; and although such intense teams tend to remain intact only for a relatively short period of time, that time is remembered nostalgically and in considerable detail by its members.

  Jean Lipman-Blumen

  Team, Passion, Style

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• Successful people spend 10% of their time focused on the problems and 90% of the rest, focused on the solution.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspiring, Stay Strong, Successful

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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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• The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.

  Jim Hightower

  Self, People, Greek

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• I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Real, Thinking, Together

  "Samuel L. Jackson Talks BIG GAME, Playing the President, THE BLOB Remake, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Sometimes we're too focused on getting out of a situation that we don't think about what we can get out of the situation.

  Mark Batterson

  Thinking, Sometimes, Situation

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• The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene.

  Zhuangzi

  Baby, Moving, Eye

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• I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.

  Philippe Kahn

  Should Have, People, Focus

  Commencement speech for University of California Santa Cruz students, 1996.

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• I warn you, Kelsey, that I'm an extremely patient man. I've had extensive practice in waiting out the enemy. My life as a tiger has taught me that attentive persistence and focused diligence always pay off. Consider yourself forewarned, priyatama. I'm on the hunt. I've caught your scent, and I won't be thwarted in my course.

  Colleen Houck

  Love, Persistence, Men

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• I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Powerful, Issues

  Speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• Women spend 80 cents of every dollar in the marketplace. We could be the most powerful force for economic and environmental change in the 21st century if we focused our money where it could make the biggest difference. If a million people did that, it would have a $1 billion impact.

  Diane MacEachern

  Powerful, Business, Impact

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• Some people would argue the other side: that the business of business is business, and companies should only be focused on profits. But in today's world, I don't think corporations can only be focused on profits, because they are inextricably linked with the communities that they serve. I do not believe you can be a leader in your industry without being a leader in your community. It's a fundamental shift in how you think about business.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Believe, Thinking

  "On the Record: Marc Benioff". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2006.

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• We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don't want to have 20 different products that work in 20 different ways. I was getting lost at our site keeping track of everything. I would rather have a smaller set of products that have a shared set of features.

  Sergey Brin

  Success, Business, Track

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• Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Growth, Good To Great

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• In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dance, Couple, Dancing

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.

  Mike Weir

  Fun, Golf, Worry

  Sky Sports Interview, www.skysports.com. July 3, 2011.

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• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  Safra A. Catz

  Wall, Independent, Law

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• DAILY TRAINING in the Art of Peace allows your inner divinity to shine brighter and brighter. Do not concern yourself with the right and wrong of others. Do not be calculating or act unnaturally. Keep your mind focused on the Art of Peace, and do not criticize other teachers or traditions. The Art of Peace never restrains or shackles anything. It embraces all and purifies everything.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, Art, Shining

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.76, Shambhala Publications

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• 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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• Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

  Alexander Lowen

  Adventure, Discovery, Self

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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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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