Focused Quotes - Page 19

• Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Expectations, Bars

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• The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.

  Marc Veasey

  Dream, Religious, Fleeing

  "New Year, Same Priority: 2014 Is the Year for Immigration Reform" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• ... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

  Adrienne Rich

  Growing Up, Real, Flames

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• the more we are focused on controlling and changing others, the more unmanageable our life becomes. The more we focus on living our own life, the more we have a life to live, and the more manageable our life will become.

  Melody Beattie

  Focus, Our Lives, Manageable

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe.

  Esther Hicks

  Powerful, Two, Creative

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• I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated.

  Monte Lipman

  Jobs, Team, Winning

  "Corner Office: Republic Records Honchos Monte & Avery Lipman Discuss Jennifer Lawrence's 'Hunger Games' Smash and Defend 'The Voice'". Interview with Andrew Hampp, www.billboard.com. December 15, 2014.

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• It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.

  Phil Ehart

  Running, Kansas, Challenges

  "We are Rich Williams and Phil Ehart from the band Kansas - AUA". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com.

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• I'm focused on solving the problem that would make it plausible for gov't to get back to solving real problems.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Real, Problem, Plausible

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• Stay focused. You gotta believe in yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I've been able to do throughout my whole career, even before I actually had a big career in this industry.

  Ace Hood

  Believe, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

  Ace Hood

  Artist, Trying, Firsts

  Source: www.independentphilly.com

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• As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.

  Shawn Achor

  Loss, Thinking, Time Management

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.

  Shawn Achor

  Meaningful, Creating, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

  Anthony Holden

  Love, Running, Baseball

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• The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.

  Louise Bogan

  Reality, Poetry, Lovely

  Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr

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• This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.

  Mark Lilla

  Philosophy, Mars, Matter

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• [To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

  Barbara Lee

  Courage, War, Mistake

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• You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

  Lillian Russell

  Eye, Whales, Oysters

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• We were rattled. A team like Rutgers, they play in spurts, and they didn't have a large spurt. We certainly knew we had it in us to get back in the game if we stayed focused.

  Dawn Staley

  Team, Games, Play

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• Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

  Joel Osteen

  Accomplish Your Goals, Stay Focused, Distraction

  Twitter post from Nov 29, 2012

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• Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Mind, Want

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• I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Names, Trying, Records

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• It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

  Dominika Cibulkova

  Being Yourself, Court, Difficult

  "Q&A: Dominika Cibulkova on Xperia Hot Shots". Interview with Ellen J. Horrow, www.usatoday.com. March 20, 2011.

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• The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.

  Robert Haugen

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 142, 1999.

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• There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Drama, Character, Epic

  "'There Will Be Blood'". www.salon.com. December 26, 2007.

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• My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

  Safra A. Catz

  Wall, Independent, Law

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