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“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”

“Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.”

Mind Self Moments Light Next Effort Consciousness Focus Flower Ocean Eternal Awake Glorious Present Moment Butterfly Within You True Self Here And Now Drifting Like A Butterfly

Author:Denise Linn

“We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.”

Born Effort Focus Skills Constant Initials Upgrading

Author:Robert Genn

“Don't focus on the wins and losses... focus your efforts on performing to your full potential.”

Winning Loss Effort Focus Performing Mma Full Potential Wins And Losses

Author:Michael Chandler

“Elegant in its simplicity and practicality, Lee has distilled many powerful leadership strategies into the lessons many of us learned as children. They are no less relevant to our working lives. At its core, Creating Magic is a collection of stories that reminds us to demonstrate care and respect for every member of the team and to focus our efforts not our ourselves but on the people we lead.”

People Children Stories Care Powerful Effort Focus Magic Team Lessons Members Creating Strategy Simplicity Core Collections Relevant Elegant Practicality Working Life

Author:George Bodenheimer

“All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.”

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Author:Jaggi Vasudev

“If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, "What would make me happy?" In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn't work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs. I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work.”

“In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?”

Ifs Thinking Life Believe Art Real Action Effort Focus Perception Management Real Life Impression Why Not Gaps Virtuous Trustworthy Persuading

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.”

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Author:Maggie Q

“Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent of scientists focus their efforts. Even the smallest insect, with its intricate structure, is far more complex than either an atom or a star.”

World Stars Challenges Effort Focus Intellectual Scientist Structure Complexes Everyday Cosmos Atoms Cents Quantum Smallest Insects Intricate

Author:Martin Rees

“You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.”

Author:Andy Grove

“The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.”

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Author:Sam Storms

“Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.”

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Author:John Ortberg

“I get to focus on something I love to do 24-hours a day rather than trying to squeeze it in between midterms, or even during my normal workday. When I was at Google it was like you wake up at 7 and then you get home by 7 and you start your second job of music. So now I get to focus all my efforts on music, travel and play shows and do all of this stuff. That's the difference - That's all my life is, all day.”

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Author:Hoodie Allen

“Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan.”

Energy Results Effort Silence Focus Plans Activity Handle Persistence Lions Executing

Author:Les Brown

“The president made clear when he was a candidate for this office and when he took this office, that unfortunately prior to his taking office, because of the focus on Iraq, and the U.S. efforts there, that the original war, if you will, in Afghanistan had been neglected, the strategy there was unclear, and that it was not properly resourced.”

Ifs Made War President Effort Clear Focus Office Originals Strategy Iraq Candidates Afghanistan Neglected Unclear

Author:Jay Carney

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. Focus all your effort on what is in your power to control.”

World Effort Focus Mountain Climbs

Author:John Wooden

“First, we need good, stable relations with Russia. Second, we must make every effort to save energy and focus on using various sources to meet our energy needs. We must not allow ourselves to become dependent.”

Needs Firsts Energy Effort Focus Source Relation Various Russia Dependent Stable Saving Energy

Author:Angela Merkel

“By the time I got to high school, I didn't play anything but baseball because I was on a mission. I really wanted to get a scholarship. I really wanted to focus all my time and efforts on baseball. When I got up to Florida State, God spoke to me very clearly and called me out of that and called me into music, which up until that point had just been a hobby.”

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Author:Jonny Diaz

“If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.”

Ifs Want Mind Effort Focus Brands Branding

Author:Al Ries

“Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not out of jealousy but out of respect and focus your efforts not on replicating others' portfolios but on looking for opportunities where they are not. The only way for investors to significantly outperform is to periodically stand far apart from the crowd, something few are willing, or able, to do.”

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Author:Seth Klarman

“Those on the left who scream about income gaps choose to focus on the success of those at the top rather than the failures of those at the bottom. They conveniently ignore that liberals are the ones who have pushed the moral relativisim and welfare-state dependence that has destroyed black families over the last 60 years. And it is these same liberals who fight to keep low-income kids in failing public schools and fight efforts to get school choice.”

“We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.”

Effort Focus Solutions Discovering

Book:A Simpler Way

Source: A Simpler Way

“... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.”

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Book:Dennis Hopper: Interviews

Source: Dennis Hopper: Interviews

“Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e. companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.”

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Author:Naveen Jain

“God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.”

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Author:Rick Warren