Focused Quotes - Page 26

• My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

  Michael K. Williams

  Character, Goal, Crafts

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• To dig a straight furrow, the plowman needs to keep his eyes on a fixed point ahead of him. That keeps him on a true course. If, however, he happens to look back to see where he has been, his chances of straying are increased. The results are crooked and irregular furrows...Fix your attention on your...goals and never look back on your earlier problems....If our energies are focused not behind us but ahead of us--on eternal life and the joy of salvation--we assuredly will obtain it.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Eye, Goal, Generosity

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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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• 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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• My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.

  Dean Spade

  Race, Intellectual, Reform

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

  Cassandra Wilson

  African American, Black, Movement

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• Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

  Joel Osteen

  Accomplish Your Goals, Stay Focused, Distraction

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2012

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• The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

  Neville Goddard

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Imagination

  Neville Goddard (2015). “Be What You Wish”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Who you really are is Non-Physical Energy focused in a physical body, knowing full well that all is well and always has been, and always will be. You are here to experience the supreme pleasure of concluding new desires, and then of bringing yourself into vibrational alignment with the new desires that you've concluded, for the purpose of taking thought beyond that which it has been before.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Knowing

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• Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

  Herman Edwards

  Inspirational, Leadership, Doe

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• We were very focused on becoming profitable from a very early time, which was not true of most companies in the bubble

  Marissa Mayer

  Fundraising, Becoming, Company

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• The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.

  John W. Thompson

  Technology, Israel, Venture

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

  Will Smith

  Meaningful, Years, Two

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• [W]hat suffers in the atmosphere of immediacy is analysis. What suffers in this search for speed is depth. The media in the wealthy world are becoming increasingly simplistic, superficial, and celebrity-focused.

  Laurie Garrett

  Media, Atmosphere, Suffering

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• The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Business, Mind, Pressure

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• I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.

  Gretchen Mol

  Relationship, Husband, Voice

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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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• Unfortunately our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very-very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Strong, Balance, Needs

  "Market needs to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw". ET Now Interview, economictimes.indiatimes.com. April 26, 2013.

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• The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.

  Mara Liasson

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 02, 2011.

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• I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.

  Seth Godin

  Doors, People, Wells

  "Seth Godin: On Passion, Fighting Resistance & Being Weird". Experian Information Solutions Interview, www.experian.com.

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• The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers of 'hows' balanced with 'its' that dissolve in the crashing changes ahead. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Leadership, Character, Mind

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• When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.

  Bill Porter

  Confused, Mean, Meditation

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• My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

  David Duchovny

  Jobs, Missing, Next

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• I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.

  Mara Wilson

  Thinking, People, Wish

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• I haven't really focused so much on getting acting work.

  Charlene Tilton

  Acting, Havens

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