Focused Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Generally I start writing when I have even the smallest idea of how a book is going to go, because the physical process of writing itself keeps the mind active and focused on the job at hand. Usually I write in about 5 drafts, but that simply means there are 5 definite times when I go in a linear fashion from the beginning to the end of the book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fashion, Jobs, Book

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

  Paul David Tripp

  Heart, Self, Hands

  Paul David Tripp (2007). “A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You”, p.94, David C Cook

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• We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Self, Desire

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• I never had a plan, except to write. I love what I do, and have from the beginning. Loving what you do makes it a lot easier to work, every day, to face the tough spots and heel in for the long haul. Nothing against plans; they work for some people. But for me, if I'd been planning, worrying about numbers, trying to micro-manage my career, I wouldn't have focused on the writing. If you don't write, you're not read. If you're not read, you don't sell. So that's my Master Plan, I guess. Write the books, let the agent agent, the editor edit, the publisher publish.

  Nora Roberts

  Book, Writing, Loving What You Do

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• I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.

  Markus Zusak

  Real, Writing, Years

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• For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Growing Up, Kids, Ghetto

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• In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.

  Robert Zoellick

  Struggle, Years, Europe

  "Finance meetings focus on banking crisis, food prices". abcnews.go.com.

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• I love being inside my brain and pushing myself to think in ever more complex ways because I know the ideas are there for the taking. It's all about being focused and disciplined and making use of one's abilities.

  Nancy Crow

  Love Is, Thinking, Ideas

  Nancy Crow (2006). “Nancy Crow”

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• Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable.

  Jean Gebser

  Reality, Justice, Understanding

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• But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.

  Nathan Lane

  Cutting, Successful, Order

  Boston Globe, July 11, 1999.

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• When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

  China Mieville

  Couple, Book, Writing

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