Focused Quotes - Page 39

• [To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

  Barbara Lee

  Courage, War, Mistake

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• You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

  Lillian Russell

  Eye, Whales, Oysters

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• We were rattled. A team like Rutgers, they play in spurts, and they didn't have a large spurt. We certainly knew we had it in us to get back in the game if we stayed focused.

  Dawn Staley

  Team, Games, Play

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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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• Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Mind, Want

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• I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Names, Trying, Records

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• It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

  Dominika Cibulkova

  Being Yourself, Court, Difficult

  "Q&A: Dominika Cibulkova on Xperia Hot Shots". Interview with Ellen J. Horrow, www.usatoday.com. March 20, 2011.

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Drama, Character, Epic

  "'There Will Be Blood'". www.salon.com. December 26, 2007.

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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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• What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Cancer, My Best Friend, Cost

  "Women at Work: Biocon Founder on Philanthropy, Sexism and Politics". Interview with Atish Patel, blogs.wsj.com. June 18, 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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• You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

  Emily Alyn Lind

  Fun, Hard Work, Having Fun

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• I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

  Cate Blanchett

  Thinking, People, Think Of Me

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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 hope to be making television shows and films, and creating content that captivates Latinos. I try not to think about it too much, though. I'm more focused in the present.

  Jon Huertas

  Thinking, Creating, Trying

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

  Charlene Tilton

  Acting, Havens

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• In the luxury segment, if we just focused on fuel economy, that wouldn't be enough.

  Robert M. Carter

  Luxury, Fuel Economy, Enough

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• A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Circles, People, Goal

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• I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

  Lauren Lee Smith

  Cds, Always Trying, Honest

  "The fruit of Lauren Lee Smith's labour". Interview with Petrina Gentile, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 13, 2011.

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