Focused Quotes - Page 13

• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  Etgar Keret

  Beautiful, Want, Sometimes

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

  Jon Krakauer

  Autism, Heaven, Projects

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• When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Lying, Writing, Europe

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• Pause and remember - The more you stay focused on your blessings the less stressed your life will be!

  Jennifer Young

  Blessing, Negativity, Stressed

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• I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

  David Knopfler

  People, Tears, Weakness

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• We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

  Peter MacKay

  Party, People, Growing

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• As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Past, Views, Age

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• I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.

  Jo Nesbo

  Selfish, Fighting, Thinking

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• It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

  Mike Singletary

  Football, Winning, Thinking

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• I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble.

  Diane Lane

  Children, Interesting, Acting

  "Diane Lane Talks Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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• I eat very clean, healthy food at all times because I'm very focused about keeping myself in shape.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Healthy, Shapes, Clean

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• Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes.

  Rob Portman

  Country, Jobs, Government

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• I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

  Edward Ruscha

  World, Sacred, Forgotten

  "Ed Ruscha's best shot" by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• It's always difficult, especially the U.S. Open, the last of the Grand Slams. It's always tough because you know, the season is very long. I really played a lot this year. Sometimes it's really hard to stay focused all the time because you're really tired after the whole season.

  Agnieszka Radwanska

  Tired, Years, Long

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• I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.

  Aly Raisman

  Strong, Powerful, Needs

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• So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.

  Bill Rancic

  Drama, Real, Fake

  "How Marathons Can Save Your Marriage". Interview with Markham Heid, www.menshealth.com. June 28, 2011.

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• I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

  Jeremy Renner

  Actors, Singers, Impossible

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

  Fred Seibert

  Real, Player, Rocks

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.

  Taiye Selasi

  Emotional, Long, Flow

  "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.

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• I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Airports, Cities

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• There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment. If you are not focused, you will pick up these energies.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Enlightenment, Energy

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• You need a job. You need a career. You need a focus. Otherwise, you will just pick up lots of strange psychic energy because you are not focused.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, Psychics

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• Throughout the day remind yourself that you are moving through eternity. Be focused. Be centered. Be in the now. Know what is going on in the world. Read a newspaper once in a while.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Balance

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• Everything you do in meditation is amplified. If you meditate for five minutes with your complete mind focused on happiness, that is like focusing on happiness for several hours as you are walking around.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Meditation

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• And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Thinking, Scripts, Busier

  "Jennifer Lawrence talks 'X-Men,' fame and 'Hunger Games'". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.washingtonpost.com. May 29, 2011.

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