Focus Quotes - Page 19

• Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg.

  John Updike

  Easter, Boston, Eggs

  "Fenway Park a big part of pop culture" byChad Finn, www.bostonglobe.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Order, Psychics, Skills

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• As players, you just play for the club. I love Man United, I'm going to play for Man United, and that's what my focus is on.

  Ryan Giggs

  Player, Men, Clubs

  "Ryan Giggs: Nice Guy Finishes First" By Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Love is the greatest of all the commandments-all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Love Is, Followers, Christ

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• Losers focus on what they are going through; winners focus on what they are going to.

  John C. Maxwell

  Loser, Winner

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• Don't worry about what you can't do; focus instead on what you can do... and then do it.

  Billy Graham

  Worry, Can Do

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• If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Welfare, Well Being

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• A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to look at the wall in an attempt to avoid it. But if you keep focusing on what you fear, that's exactly where you'll end up. Professional racers know that we unconsciously steer in the direction of our focus, so with their lives on the line, they turn their focus away from the wall and towards the open track.

  Tony Robbins

  Wall, Track, Car

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 23, 2015

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• When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Balance, World

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• What you focus on grows.

  Esther Hicks

  Grows

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• If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.

  Al Ries

  Effort, Mind, Want

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• Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, People, Revolutionary

  "The strange love-hate relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs" by Matt Weinberger, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2017,.

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• The intrinsic path to success is to focus on being the person that you are, and put all of your energy and drive into being the best possible version of yourself.

  Paul Buchheit

  Energy, Path, Being The Best

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• A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing an action are more important in determining subsequent engagement than the actual outcome of that action.

  Alfie Kohn

  Achievement, Important, Outcomes

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• Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mind, Trying, Concentration

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• [The movies] glamorize game day a little bit too much. It's such a focus. They miss a lot of the nuts and bolts, and the time that goes into the preparation each week, or each couple of days in basketball.

  Vince Kehres

  Basketball, Couple, Nuts

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It would have opportunity for humor too of course. And ideally I would be the writer/director? (Though I suppose if I was, it is POSSIBLE I would give myself a meaty but smaller part so I could focus on the latter of my duties... Maybe).

  E.J. Bonilla

  Opportunity, Giving, Superhero

  "LatinoBuzz Interview: E.J. Bonilla on His Hot-Blooded Performance in ‘The House That Jack Built’" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. November 21, 2015.

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• And consequently, you have this rich looking film, which gives it this kind of muscular feel, deep focus, soft focus look. I'm not that great on development. I can see where things go wrong, but Beau, Carl and Mike Finch, they worked on it relentlessly. And then I would see the material and I would say, "Well, that just doesn't ring true. I don't quite know why that's happening."

  Pierce Brosnan

  Giving, Looks, Development

  Source: collider.com

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• I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made me focus in on the actors a lot more. I didn't have the distraction of looking at my surroundings.

  Dennis Haysbert

  Brain, Actors, Distraction

  Source: collider.com

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• We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which were refreshing and open. But at this point, with the distrust that's there and the disillusionment with leadership that is so acute, we need some kind of a focus on taking the irony out and taking the anti-hero element away.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hero, Needs, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• I learned that I was able to focus. I've always thought of myself as somebody who is like either it's there or it isn't there. I really worked at this, and I focused, and I was able to replace self-doubt with focus. That was something new for me to say self-doubt is there, but it does not need to be in the front row. You can ask it to take a back seat and replace that front row seat with focus.

  Jenny Slate

  Self, Doubt, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new material. You don't want to be buried in a book. It splits your focus a little bit.

  Justin Theroux

  Book, Reading, Splits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.

  Terence Winter

  Real, Needs, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Sound, Able

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Fate, Glasses, People

  Source: collider.com

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