Focused Quotes - Page 26

• What works for me is that I read widely and stay focused on my writing. I'm no longer concerned about what happens in the literary marketplace. It is distracting and can lead to discontent.

  Sefi Atta

  Writing, Stay Focused, Discontent

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• I just really enjoying creating in general; I used to also write stories and play music and do different crafts, but illustration ended up being the creative outlet that I focused on for my career. I feel like illustration gives me the flexibility to tackle more abstract or loose ideas, as well as just enjoy the process of putting time into developing a skill.

  Julie Dillon

  Writing, Illustration, Play

  Interview with Loraine Sammy, www.apex-magazine.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I have my own way to stay focused. I work out every day. I exercise. I swim. I meditate. I breathe.

  Nneka

  Exercise, Work Out, Swim

  "Nneka: Neo-Soulful Voice of Nigeria". Interview with Ebony, www.ebony.com. June 24, 2015.

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• I made a conscious decision to take my life and career in a different direction. I started working on a play, and also, by attending Burning Man for several years, I was incredibly stimulated by the art there. I increasingly wanted to be a part of it, and focused on what I wanted to say as an artist.

  Scott Cohen

  Art, Men, Play

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• Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

  Hiromi

  Littles, Taught, Patient

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• It's easy to be an actor at 8 or 9 in the morning, but it's really important to be focused and work hard at 6 and 7 at night, after you've been on the set for 10 or 12 hours. That time counts, too.

  Clint Howard

  Morning, Hard Work, Night

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.

  Dan Mangan

  Giving, Challenges, Ongoing

  Source: www.themetropolist.com

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• China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

  Berti Vogts

  Football, Hard Work, Games

  Source: www.china.org.cn

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• I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.

  Marilou

  Song, Priorities, Study

  Source: sleepingbagstudios.ca

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• When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.

  Luis Valdez

  Careers, Needs, Obstacles

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• Swimming has given me a lot. It's given me a respect for people and different cultures around the world when I've been competing abroad. I've learnt many life skills and met so many friends around the world that I might not have had otherwise. I'm focused and driven and I guess swimming has made me that way.

  Liam Tancock

  Swimming, Skills, People

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The only advice I could give is to stay positive and focused in terms of what your goals are, and stick to them. If you can't attain those goals, maybe they're not realistic. At this level only a small percentage of players make it, so you've really got to strive to get what you want.

  Filo Tiatia

  Player, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Being able to work as part of a team is essential. You learn to give as well as receive support. I have learnt to be focused and I have carried this with me elsewhere in my life. I am also a safer driver and I am a stronger person mentally as I am constantly under pressure and have to deal with things.

  Liz Halliday

  Team, Giving, Support

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• They are both all over physical sports that require being focused, accurate and having good strength. They are both fast with big consequences if things go wrong, so I have to be alert and aware at all times. With racing there is much more endurance and technical skill.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Skills, Racing

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• You have to stay focused because a lot of things will break your confidence. But if you stay focused and want it bad enough you can achieve. I know that sounds like a PBS special, but it's true, straight up.

  Chamillionaire

  Pbs, Special, Sound

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.

  Martina Navratilova

  Lessons, Devotion, Cricket

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• Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.

  David Ramsey

  Inspirational, Motivation, Stress

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• If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the actor who's very focused on the narrative, where my character is in the story, and how I can benefit the story. I've always had a technical aspect of what the lens is, how the camera is going to move, how I can feed the information the director applies within that move. If you're that type of actor, narrative-based, technically proficient, the next step is actually not that far.

  Russell Crowe

  Moving, Character, Shoes

  "Russell Crowe, The Water Diviner Interview". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. April, 2015.

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• You're real selfish and everything is focused on you and how you feel until you realize there is something missing and that's your relationship with Jesus Christ.

  Darrell Waltrip

  Jesus, Selfish, Real

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Hands, Acting, Directors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I'm more of an empiricist. I'm focused on right or wrong, as opposed to left or right.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Left

  Source: gawker.com

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• Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

  Francis Chan

  Leadership, Christian, Prayer

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• As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

  John Olver

  Powerful, Taken, Years

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• Its fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.

  Bob Graham

  Two, Years, Next

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• Have lots of experiments, but make sure they're strategically focused.

  Adam Smith

  Experiments

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