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• Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you're focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don't have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. My way was to work, make my short... make my documentary... make my small films... use my own money... raise money myself... and stay shooting and focused on each project.

  Ava DuVernay

  Glasses, Ceilings, Use

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. December 22, 2014.

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• Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously.

  Ice Cube

  Blessing, Thinking, Rapper

  "Ice Cube: The ‘Are We There Yet?’". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I don't think I need too much help. I think my head's on pretty straight, and I'm pretty realistic about things. I'm very focused, so that certainly prevents me from going all over the place.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Needs, Too Much

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. February 2004.

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• I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, Vacation, Careers

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com. February 2004.

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• I think you have to know exactly what you want. Whether you want to be a guitar player or a musician, you have to be really focused on it if you really want to do it.

  Jonny Lang

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.

  John Loengard

  Eye, Hands Up, People

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• It is not education, but education of a certain kind, that will serve us. And the current model of western, urban-centered, school-based, education, which is so often more focused on turning children into efficient corporate units rather than curious and open-minded adults, will only lead us further down the wrong path.

  David W. Orr

  Children, School, Adults

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• As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!

  Victoria Osteen

  Gratitude, Believe, Live Life

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• Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.

  Ken Blanchard

  Meaningful, People, Focus

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• A lot of people believe in reading reviews. If I get too focused on some detail of what they've said about me, I'm going to end up shooting myself in the foot.

  Kevin Bacon

  Believe, Reading, Feet

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• I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.

  Patton Oswalt

  New York, Thinking, Exit

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.

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• Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even if the possibility of loss exists.

  Simon Sinek

  Loss, Journey, Risk

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Nov 16, 2010

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• To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

  Edward de Bono

  Thinking, Skills, Should

  Edward De Bono (2006). “De Bono's Thinking Course”, p.123, Pearson Education

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• This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused more on feeling good as opposed to beating myself up.

  Gwen Stefani

  Thinking, Years, Work Out

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• Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  Carl Sagan

  Children, Reality, Imagination

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• In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Passion, Ideas

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• ... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Space, Errors, Effort

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• I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

  Cam Newton

  Eye, Want

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast.

  Jane Byrne

  Eye, Cities, Chicago

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• Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Isis, Iran

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• People are less focused on the story, and more on how the story is told.

  Lynne Tillman

  People, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

  Moby

  Mean, Dating, Feelings

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 09, 2011.

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• Our budget also reflects key components of our campaign. It's very much focused on stabilizing public services, restoring stability to public services and investing in job creation and economic diversification and, generally speaking, acting as a cushion during this economy, something fundamentally different than what the other parties proposed in the last election.

  Rachel Notley

  Jobs, Party, Keys

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.

  Carly Fiorina

  Religious, Effort, Decision

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Hurt, Feelings, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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