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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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• As 17th U.S. Surgeon General, I was privileged to serve as the nation's doctor. I focused much of my time on promoting proven programs and individual steps that lead to good health.

  Richard Carmona

  Doctors, Steps, Individual

  "Childhood Obesity: Fighting for the Future Health of America's Youth" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2010.

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• Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things theyre making.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Writing, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Dont buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

  James Altucher

  Sleep, Entrepreneur, Mind

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• I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.

  Peter Munk

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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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• I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

  Hilton Als

  Girl, New York, Men

  "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Tasks, Serious, Stills

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Discipline, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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 don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.

  Flying Lotus

  Rapper, Want, Way

  "Flying Lotus Talks New LP, Lil Wayne". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. January 14, 2010.

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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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• I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Team, Thinking, Hands

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• You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

  Derek Fisher

  Fun, Relax, Passionate

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• My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work.

  George Clooney

  Charitable Work, Life Is, Process

  "George Clooney: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 13, 2011.

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• When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

  Jenson Button

  Selfish, Race, Careers

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• When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge.

  Susan Cain

  People, Worry, Messages

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• I did more research into the police procedure. I worked out with SWAT guys and ex- and active military guys, and consulted with them and read books. As far as the character itself, I don't know how you can research being a focused guy, aside from just being a focused person and knowing what that's like. Outside of the character background and all that, there wasn't a whole lot of other stuff to really delve into. You just do what you do.

  Tim Kang

  Military, Book, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• It's partly the fault of the institutions of education. But it's partly the decision to be relieved of responsibility. Literature is simply the most focused form of the demands on the evolution of the species. It imposes a certain responsibility, moral, ethical and esthetic responsibility, and the species simply doesn't want to oblige.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Responsibility, Decision, Faults

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• Kristen is really focused and really quiet, as an actress. She just does her thing, but she's cool. I like her. I know a lot of people have mixed comments about her, but I think she's a rad person. She's just focused on what she's doing, as an actress, and she wants to pick the right roles, and she's committed to her craft. She's really cool. We got along. There weren't any tensions or anything.

  Tinsel Korey

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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