Focused Quotes - Page 32

• If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Age, Missions, Uncertain

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Thinking, Church, Three

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• In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

  Steven J Lawson

  Race, Stay Focused, Christ

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• I am centered and focused. I feel more secure each day

  Louise Hay

  Each Day, Feels, Secure

  Louise Hay (2011). “21 Days to Master Affirmations”, p.106, Hay House, Inc

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• As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.

  Tom Colicchio

  New York, Issues, Groups

  "Tom Colicchio on solving the hunger problem in America". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2013.

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• The challenge is not to get caught up in the hoopla. To understand what goes into winning - stay focused, you've got to be prepared, you need an edge. If you get lost in all the other stuff you're not going to be prepared to play well.

  Tom Thibodeau

  Winning, Play, Challenges

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• I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Successful, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Interview with Colin Campbell, www.macleans.ca. October 5, 2011.

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• Everybody's on their toes and focused on what we're about to do, and then there's this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can. Everyone opens up to one another right away. That's a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.

  Alan Alda

  Jobs, Relax, Actors

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  Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

  Alicia Keys

  Moments, Driven, Enjoy

  "Alicia Keys: 'When I Was 17...'" by Julie Miller, Slide 17, www.seventeen.com. June 08, 2010.

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• It seems so much of my time and my energy have been focused on making or trying to make other people love me. The unspoken belief was that if I could make myself lovable to others I would feel loved....The truth is, I can only feel loved by others when I love myself.

  Kimberly Kirberger

  People, Trying, Energy

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• I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Beautiful, Mother, Thinking

  "The Breakthrough: Lupita Nyong'o". Interview with Leslie Bennetts, www.glamour.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.

  Lisa Shannon

  Dad, Helping Others, Thinking

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• You feel what you're focused on.

  Tony Robbins

  Feels

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• If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

  Larry Page

  Impact, People, Looks

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• We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men.

  Angelina Jolie

  Men, Long, Needs

  "Angelina Jolie’s Powerful Speech On What Women Really Need From Men" By Zeba Blay, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

  John Wooden

  Believe, Ambition, Goal

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success”, p.99, Revell

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• When you obsess about the customer, you end up defeating your competition as a byproduct. When you are just obsessed about the competition, you end up killing yourself, because you are not focused on the customer.

  KR Sridhar

  Competition, Killing, Obsessed

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• If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Heart, Meditation

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

  Gene Simmons

  Cracks, Destination, Sidewalk

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• Our podium is the music. It's really important that we stay focused, because things become misconstrued in the media.

  Lauryn Hill

  Media, Important, Stay Focused

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• Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hands, Play, Research

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• What I love about the tours is the day to dayness of it all.. you meet so many people and travel so much in such a short period of time and it's always so concentrated and focused that it stops you thinking beyond the box too much. I love things that absorb you completely.

  Ben Howard

  Thinking, People, Too Much

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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• To be honest, I would have to say that there was a certain burden in working with Arnold, a big action star. I am aware that Arnold is loved by the American audience, but rather than focusing on working with Arnold, what I focused on was expressing the character, Sheriff Owens, through Arnold the actor and knowing that Arnold and my idea about Sheriff Owens coincided and that it was about Owens protecting a certain value and justice, I focused more on that aspect that helped me to be more comfortable in working with Arnold.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Stars, Character, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, College, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

  T.I.

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Use

  Source: collider.com

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