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• Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Grateful, Loss

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• The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

  John Scott

  Style, Stories, Use

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• I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.

  David Foster Wallace

  Distress, Restroom

  David Foster Wallace (2009). “Infinite Jest”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

  Julio Cortazar

  Serendipity, Lightning, Attention

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• The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

  Havelock Ellis

  Animal, Men, Needs

  Havelock Ellis (1905). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual selection in man: I. Touch. II. Smell. III. Hearing. IV. Vision”

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• I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

  Mark Haddon

  Dog, Lying, Thinking

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". Book by Mark Haddon, www.abc.net.au. May, 2003.

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• I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.

  Walter Kirn

  Husband, Book, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Inspiration, Dancing

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• Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

  Martina Navratilova

  Motivational, Sports, Practice

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• Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Accomplishment, Office, Dying

  A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.119, Macmillan

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• If he could have his way, Satan would distract us from our heritage. He would have us become involved in a million and one things in this life-probably none of which is very important in the long run-to keep us from concentrating on the things that are really important, particularly the reality that we are God's children. He would like us to forget about home and family values. He'd like to keep us so busy with comparatively insignificant things that we don't have time to make the effort to understand where we came from, whose children we are, and how glorious our ultimate homecoming can be!

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Running, Children, Home

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• That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I'd always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph's part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.

  Aimee Bender

  Mother, Air, Details

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• Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

  Khalil Gibran

  Trying, Problem, Window

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• That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hurt, Kindness, Fall

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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• ... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Purpose

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.32, Macmillan

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• You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.

  Khem Veasna

  Thinking, May, Again And Again

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• I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Play, Piano, Worry

  "Eddie Redmayne and Emma Stone on Acting, Fame and Protecting Their Privacy". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2015.

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• The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Character, Use

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• If we spent the majority of our focus just concentrating on our side of the street, not so much on what the next guy is doing, I think I'd get a lot more done - we'd all get a lot more done - and we'd probably have a lot less criticism for everybody else.

  Grant Bowler

  Thinking, Focus, Guy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

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• The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.

  Shane Carruth

  Mistake, People, Cameras

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• No matter how poorly our lives seem to be going, we can become part of a greater flow of good and increase our awareness by doing something more than we have to do-by giving of ourselves. One of the keys to prosperity is realizing that prosperity doesn't come by getting more-it comes by giving more! We can prosper by emphasizing what we are giving rather than concentrating on what we are getting.

  John Templeton

  Keys, Giving, Matter

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• By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

  Ian Mcewan

  People, Justice, Asking

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• I'm not content. What I've accomplished already was good, and it was needed at the time in order for me to move on, but I'm so hungry I can't even tell you what was, I'm concentrating on what is to be. Once I knock that down, I'll go on to the next accomplishment until I can finally say, "that was the greatest." I can only say what it is when I'm done; and I'm not done, I have a lot of work to do.

  Kai Greene

  Moving, Order, Accomplishment

  Source: www.awesome-body.club

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• The folks who want to be left alone are the ones who actually get most of the work done, but they’re still mocked as drones or beavers or trolls. That’s bad enough, but now technology is helping the extroverts in their long twilight campaign against actually concentrating on anything.

  Kevin Drum

  Twilight, Technology, Long

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Causes

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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