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“If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.”

Ifs Needs Jobs Focus Collectives Instruction Wire Surgeons Sewers

Author:William Monahan

“I think it's so important, as young women, to have relationships, especially when you're in your early 20s. But it's always so important to focus on yourself.”

Thinking Important Young Focus Young Women Early 20s Focus On Yourself

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“Sometimes, girls focus too much on relationships - like, "I need a boyfriend!" But you should really just focus on yourself. But it will all come together when you least expect it.”

Needs Should Sometimes Together Girl Too Much Focus Focus On Yourself Need A Boyfriend

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.”

Needs Trying Ends Energy Focus Impossible Please Waste The End Of The Day Make You Happy

Author:Lauren Conrad

“[On charity] I try to pick subjects that I can learn about and then focus on and then do as much as I can. If you have a tremendous amount of heat from the spotlight, then you're able to shine a little bit more of your light in a different direction. It's just deflecting. My dad calls it a celebrity credit card that you can cash in. I think if you're in this position you should do it.”

“There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, "Oh you went to prison and you went to college for a couple years?" I'm like "Yeah, I learned more in prison than I think I ever learned in college." That's the sad truth.”

People Thinking Years Asks Focus College Couple Yeah Prison Ask Me Sad Truth

Author:Immortal Technique

“I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.”

Ifs Thinking Sides Focus Serious Personality Elements Humorous Who I Am Neglect Diverse Spectrum

Author:Macklemore

“I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.”

Thinking Feels Trying Art Culture Views Focus Alive Happened Right Now Nostalgia Lenses Sentimentality Undermining Invigorating Art And Culture Disheartening Happy To Be Alive

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.”

Thinking Trying Mean Hard Practice Successful Focus Keys Discipline Get Better Changing My Life Always Working

Author:Lou Reed

“We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.”

People War Age House Religious Common Race Fire Focus Imagine Listening Income Division Divided Positive Things Religious Wars House Divided

Author:Benjamin Carson

“My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs.”

Running President Focus Security Majors National Security

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.”

People Different Feelings Enjoy Animal Comedy Focus Theater Clubs Backgrounds Comedy Clubs Different Animals Blenders Nachos

Author:Brian Regan

“It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.”

Long Made Seems Waiting Focus Long Time Waiting For Something

Author:Michael Cera

“There just isn't enough time for everything on our 'to do' list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.”

People Trying Important Done Enough Successful Focus Tasks Lists Being Successful Successful People Enough Time

Author:Brian Tracy

“My approach to every game was to try to erase the games that were before and try to focus on the game at hand.”

Trying Hands Games Focus Approach Erase

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.”

Self Interest Focus Demand Customers Planning All Time Self Interest Business Plan Business Planning

Author:Brian Tracy

“Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life...and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive.”

Moments Goal Challenges Focus Achieve Healthy Obstacles Setting Goals Rise Above Healthy Life Challenge Yourself

Author:Robert H. Goddard

“Apply true focus to what you do best.”

Author:Frank McKinney

“Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting.”

Important Certain Goal Focus Plans Personality Development Aspect Determination Personal Development Improvement Setting Settings Traits Setting Goals Personality Traits

Book:Unlocking Your Legacy: 25 Keys for Success

Source: Unlocking Your Legacy: 25 Keys for Success

“Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Wells Said Stills Helping Shows Bigs Games Focus Player Team Dog He Man Right Now Basketball Faults Excuse Damn Contracts Jealous Rays Basketball Player Good Basketball

Author:Sam Cassell

“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.”

“Either you focus, or you hit something really hard.”

Author:Jeff Gordon

“Shift the focus from what you want to do, to how you want to be... how you want to feel.”

Want Feels Focus What You Want Manifestation

Author:Denise Linn

“Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus.”

Vision Focus Sight

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“If you focus on the sweeter things of life, that's exactly what you're going to get out of life”

Author:St. Germain

“This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that were previously available only to a few individuals, and how this achievement has given rise to equally unprecedented inequalities. Unique in its focus and scope, exceptional knowledge and coherence, and careful argumentation, The Great Escape is highly illuminating and a delight to read.”

“Focus on humanity, not on technology.”

Humanity Technology Focus

Author:Thomas Leuthard

“Love and appreciation are identical vibrations. Appreciation is the vibration of alignment with who-you-are. Appreciation is the absence of everything that feels bad and the presence of everything that feels good. When you focus upon what you want - ;when you tell the story of how you want your life to be - you will come closer and closer to the vicinity of appreciation, and when you reach it, it will pull you toward all things that you consider to be good in a very powerful way.”

Source: Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition

“Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.”

Needs Kind Bits Focus Extremes Best Things Sensible Adhd Borderline

Author:Jaime Winstone

“Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.”

Different Character Shows Space Focus Development Pressure Structure Series More Time Time And Space Cables

Author:James Frain

“If you focus on the flaws of others it takes away from the improvements that you may need to make.”

Ifs Needs May Focus Improvement Flaws

Author:Christofer Drew

“Now, and in the future, my focus is entirely on pets and children. Im not a person who can turn a blind eye to injustice against them.”

Children Persons Eye Turns Focus Blind Injustice Pet Blind Eyes

Author:Lori Foster

“Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.”

Focus Particular Type Lawyer Software License Licenses

Author:Keith Rothfus

“Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.”

“The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.”

Children Real Play Artist Focus Discipline Concentration Small Child

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.”

Ifs Certain Healing Focus Broken Concern Illness Circles Contact Severe

Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.”

People Home Able Focus Wall Paper Halfway Halfway Home

Author:Phyllis Diller

“I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas.”

People Thinking World Way Writing Kind Ends Hard Happens Life Is Bits Hours Focus Magic Creation Hard Work Involved Areas Appreciate Tiny Bored Working It Fulfilling Wire Cogs

Author:Diane Ackerman

“I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.”

“Focus on your buyers and your buyers problems”

Problem Focus Buyers

Author:David Meerman Scott

“Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.”

Today Focus Relationship Good Relationship

Book:Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

“the more we are focused on controlling and changing others, the more unmanageable our life becomes. The more we focus on living our own life, the more we have a life to live, and the more manageable our life will become.”

Focus Our Lives Focused Manageable

Book:Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

“One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.”

World Focus Stones Foundation Lays Reputation Volume Good Work

Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow

Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow

“To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.”

People Knows Focus Decided Tables Cards Noses Each Day Voters Dean Registration Voter Registration

Author:Wavy Gravy

“Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.”

People Love Trying Mind Firsts Night Forget Enemy Focus Worst Anxiety Stress Slave Be Good Wander Awake Worst Enemy Good Love Awake At Night

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“I think people have put too much focus on me. I don't think they realize the other weapons we have on this team. I don't think they realize the great offensive line that we have.”

People Thinking Realizing Lines Too Much Focus Team Weapons Nfl Offensive Offensive Line Focus On Me

Author:Colin Kaepernick

“Every game's a championship game. When we focus that way, get prepared that way-that this is it, you know, this is the last one, the biggest one-you get ready, you get amped up, you get that laser focus and you're ready to play.”

Knows Way Play Lasts Games Focus Ready Prepared Nfl Championship Lasers Championship Games Laser Focus

Author:Russell Wilson

“Well this week's all about Seattle, so we've been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I'm doing that, our team's doing that and we'll be ready to go Sunday. That's our focus.”

Wells Focus Week Team Ready Nfl Sunday Super Bowl Seattle

Author:Bill Belichick

“Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.”

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Author:Russell Wilson

“In terms of professionally what I want to do, I want to play 15-plus more years, get to the Hall of Fame, and win a lot of championships and all that. I'd love to be the owner of a team one day. But it's way bigger than that. For me, my vision is how can I affect somebody positively every day? When you focus on other people, somehow good things happen to you. I think that's my goal. That's my vision.”