Focused Quotes - Page 18

• Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!

  Philippe Kahn

  Past, Rewriting

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• I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.

  Philippe Kahn

  Should Have, People, Focus

  Commencement speech for University of California Santa Cruz students, 1996.

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• Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Growing Up, Believe

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• Although you do look at the big picture, if you're dealing with the now, it can be kind of frustrating. You're losing basketball games, things not going the way you want it to go or should go, but at the same time we've just got to stay with it. Just stay positive, just stay focused, as a team, as a unit, because the ship easily can sink early.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Basketball, Team, Games

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• It is necessary to be occupied almost all the time, to have your mind focused; otherwise, you get very spaced out. There are many variant psychic forces and powers that roam through the worlds. You can pick them up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Psychics

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• Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, War

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• I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

  Paul Pierce

  Sports, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Jeff Lenchiner, www.insidehoops.com. November 5, 2003.

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• I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.

  Diane Kruger

  Thinking, Ideas, Knowing

  "Diane Kruger for 'Troy'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• It is necessary to be focused. This is the raison d'etre of career.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Careers

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• They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Literature, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stay out of the gentlemen's clubs. Get a lot of rest. Just have fun and relax and stay focused.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Fun, Winning

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• Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Trying, Figures

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• I'm more focused on giving solutions and inspiration more than anything.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Inspiration, Giving, Solutions

  Source: www.complex.com

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• In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.

  David Hoffman

  War, Technology, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Music was my life...It was everything to me, even though I was in school majoring in English. I was still very focused on music and always finding ways to perform, so that was what set me up to want to become a recording artist.

  John Legend

  School, Artist, Want

  "John Legend Has The Realest Advice For College Students". Interview with Deepa Lakshmin, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2015.

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• Drama is more focused and it reveals itself to you, whereas comedy is just right there, when you first read it.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Drama, Firsts, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Real, Thinking, Together

  "Samuel L. Jackson Talks BIG GAME, Playing the President, THE BLOB Remake, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2015.

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• I never noticed competing with other generations. There's competition within your own generation, but that competition is good. Maybe you're annoyed that somebody's getting more money than you are, but what's really annoying is if someone's painting a better painting than you're making. So it's something to think about and work toward and stay focused on.

  Frank Stella

  Thinking, Annoyed, Competition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life is good. I've got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It's good. It's amazing. It's a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing.

  G-Eazy

  Rap, Humble, Ambition

  Source: 215mag.com

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• If the people around you are negative and you can't change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation.

  Terry Orlick

  Views, People, Goal

  Terry Orlick (1998). “Embracing Your Potential”, p.51, Human Kinetics

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• I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

  Deepika Padukone

  Jobs, Luxury, Half

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

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• If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

  Paul David Tripp

  Eye, Heart, Trying

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• Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

  Scarlett Pomers

  Weight, Becoming, Pounds

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• Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

  Terry Gou

  Responsibility, Government, Social

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• Whether its veterans disability claims, infrastructure projects, dam safety, or helping our farmers, what I am focused on is being useful for folks in the Hudson Valley.

  Sean Patrick Maloney

  Safety, Valleys, Dams

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