Focused Quotes - Page 28

• It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.

  Al Franken

  Mean, Air, America

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Calm, Grounded

  "Lenny Kravitz: Living and Loving Every Moment". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

  John C. Maxwell

  Character, Feelings, Action

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.200, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.

  Peter Kreeft

  Biblical, Catholic, Abuse

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• At the end of our life, we ought to be able to look back over it from our deathbed and know somehow the world is a better place because we lived, we loved, we were other-centered, other-focused.

  Joe Ehrmann

  Looks, World, Able

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• The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.

  Seth Godin

  People, Peers, Way

  "The easiest way to thrive as an outlier". sethgodin.typepad.com. October 1, 2012.

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• If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Opportunity, Inheritance, World

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.

  Ingrid Michaelson

  Self Esteem, Kids, Self Worth

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

  Colin Angle

  Mother, Book, Age

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• In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

  Noam Chomsky

  Information, Gains, Common

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• Be focused on process and not outcome

  Seth Klarman

  Outcomes, Process

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• Extraordinary performances come out of a process of continuous, regular physical and mental practice. The mindset of an extraordinary athlete is relaxed but focused and open to even higher achievements.

  Chungliang Al Huang

  Athlete, Practice, Achievement

  Chungliang Al Huang (2009). “Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life”, p.9, Bantam

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• In the ring I can tell right away what his style is and I can adapt to it. I'm adjusting to life as a politician. It's different in training but I can stay focused on both.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Style, Training, Different

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• Be very focused. Do your homework so your research and claims are unassailable. Make sure it is bulletproof and then make sure you are really focused. The thing I find is that the issues are usually so large that you try to cover a lot of ground. That's a natural impulse.

  Amy Ziering

  Issues, Trying, Research

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We really want to send the message that commanders need to understand and be accountable. We saw that with the Catholic Church. No one cared when they went after the priests, but when they focused on the bishops then things began to change. And we see that analogy working with the military.

  Amy Ziering

  Military, Catholic, Church

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.

  Ted Alexandro

  Work Ethic, Trying, Ethics

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I'd done a drawing of the model using only peripheral vision, looking at a spot on the wall to the right of where she sat. It wasn't really a drawing of her I produced; it was a drawing of the cloud of lights and darks she dissolved into when I focused on the spot. You could look at my drawing of this cloud and read it as a nude female figure, though a little translation was required.

  Peter Blegvad

  Wall, Clouds, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If something's public then it seems like the important thing is the person in that public. And the notion of rhetoric. I went to Jesuit schools that focused on first there's grammar, then there's rhetoric, and rhetoric's usually seen as a kind of degraded method, because you're trying to persuade.

  Vito Acconci

  School, Important, Trying

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Art, School, Performing

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• We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Criticism, Making A Difference

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• If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

  Ernest Cline

  Moving, Simple, Player

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• We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

  Daniel Goleman

  Focus, Brain, Connections

  Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.15, A&C Black

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• For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

  David Sze

  Perspective, Stay Focused, Staying

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• A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

  Lars Peter Hansen

  People, Economics, Broads

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• My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.

  Colin Angle

  Priorities, Promise, Vision

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