Focused Quotes - Page 31

• Sometimes we go so focused on bringing people to the meetinghouse that we forget we are supposed to be bringing them to Christ.

  M. Russell Ballard

  People, Sometimes, Forget

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• Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Leader, Soul, Church

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• Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we're focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Stress, Voice, Anxiety

  Gabrielle Bernstein (2014). “Miracles Now: 108 Life-Changing Tools for Less Stress, More Flow, and Finding Your True Purpose”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we have not paid much attention in detecting a level of social welfare. We, as a member of the society, must now take steps to create an index to indicate other critical elements to be focused on in order to restore reliability of world statistics.

  Jose Angel Gurria

  Order, Gdp, Elements

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• Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused.

  Brett Lee

  Team, Height, Matter

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• Sourav is a very positive captain. Whatever his personal form, whatever the media writes about him, he has always been strong, focused and aggressive. Perhaps these are the qualities that make him India's most successful captain.

  Virender Sehwag

  Strong, Writing, Successful

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• When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

  D. A. Carson

  Suffering, Attention, Mystery

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• It is theoretically and practically impossible to build any community apart from love and justice. If only one of these two is focused upon, an inevitable extremism and perversion follow.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Two, Justice, Community

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  Sal Albanese

  New York, Party, Independent

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• Most of us are so focused on what we don't have that we're blinded to what we do have.

  Steven Furtick

  Blinded

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• Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Naps, Long

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• Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

  Henry Blackaby

  Prayer, Leader, Way

  Henry Blackaby, Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2011). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.221, B&H Publishing Group

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• My character is different from all of the Elves you've met before, in that she's really young. And I keep telling journalists this because I've really focused on that in my performance. I'm trying to distinguish her from all of these incredibly sage and wise Elves that have lived for thousands of years.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Wise, Character, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.

  Jeremy Bolt

  Cutting, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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• There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

  Ariel Pink

  Rooms, Improvement, Results

  Interview with T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 4, 2013.

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• I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.

  Jenji Kohan

  Depressing, Drama, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• What I'm really focused on is the majesty of the best films I see are films that don't panhandle for an extra laugh later, but actually deliver the goods. And when the screen goes black, you go, Yes.

  James Mangold

  Laughing, Black, Majesty

  Source: collider.com

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• People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.

  Judy Woodruff

  Creativity, Phones, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I get ill when I'm writing because I'm so focused on it, and it can take a year or two. Often, I knock out the first draft very quickly. I can do it in five to six weeks. Then, it takes a year of rewriting it and rewriting it.

  Eran Creevy

  Writing, Years, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• Danny Boyle has been a huge, has had a huge effect on me. His movies, early movies like Trainspotting and those movies. So I've always loved the energies of those movies. But also, that they are very focused on the characters. Cause it's not only gimmickery, it's not only about visuals. You feel a real need, a love for the main characters. So that's what I've always loved about watching movies myself.

  Fredrik Bond

  Real, Character, Trainspotting

  Source: collider.com

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• We are organized by territories, whereas terrorists are organized into networks. States are very slow and terrorists are extremely fast. Intelligence sharing needs to expand beyond the regional and become global and not country-focused. We need to acquire speed and agility.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Needs, Agility

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Jobs, Games, Play

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• When you play with the best in the world, it is important that you not lose focus. You must be fully focused. Even a minor error could result in a massive defeat.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Errors, Play, Focus

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• It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

  Richard Armitage

  Play, Looks, Scripts

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• I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground, that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power throughout which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways, we still suffer from that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Rights, Track

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