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“If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.”

Ifs Knows Feels Body Energy Attention Brain Focus Flow Stronger Shut Up Somewhere Else Relentless Transfers

Author:Jason Mraz

“In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.”

Thinking Way Writing Enough Able Hate Process Pleasure Roles Focus Written Losing Aim Conquer Good Enough Enthusiastic Never Good Enough

Author:Julie Andrews

“I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.”

Done Philosophy Focus Groups Love Myself I Love Myself Focus Groups

Author:Ralph Lauren

“I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's.”

Thinking Want Trying Book Sometimes Hard Focus Incredibles

Author:Veronica Roth

“So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.”

Thinking Knows Trying Enough Careers Worry Focus Materials Fuel Departure

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“I grew up playing football and hunting; and went to military school and then into the Marine Corps. Kindness is not a valued trait. That`s why I had to learn kindness. As I grow older I'm finding it's something I definitely need to put focus on, thought and practice. Kindness actually comes from the heart, so it's really stretching inside of me. It's been quite a magical journey for me to learn to be kinder in my dealing[s] with other people.”

“Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's a little too corrupt, too greedy. Many corporations are too greedy. The labor unions are too greedy. That effects charities and religious organizations. I just think it's greed. That's why, in 1985, I had to figure out how to give before I received. The more I focus on giving, for less and less, the more and more I make.”

“When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.”

Trying Mind Enough Body Pain Moving Pleasure Focus Comfortable Secure Grasping

Author:Byron Katie

“Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.”

Littles Seems Certain Bits Memories Focus Particular Little Bit Aspect Heroic Edits Restructure

Author:Chris Ware

“When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.”

People Ifs Play Certain Sports Can Do Focus Aim Golf Hardest Concentration Bowling

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.”

Thinking Problem Hands Eye Certain Rich Focus Tired Charm Leafs Texture Cgi

Author:Matt Groening

“Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.”

Way Wells Looks Important Imagination Focus Effects Skills Look Up Horizon

Author:Peter Kline

“The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.”

“Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.”

World Reality Values Belief Attitude Focus Produce Our World Our Thoughts

Book:Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

Source: Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

“We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.”

Persons Reason Focus Appreciate Dislike Positive Relationship

Book:Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

Source: Make Peace With Anyone: Breakthrough Strategies to Quickly End Any Conflict, Feud, or Estrangement

“When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?”

Done Stories Left Focus Counting Old Days Trophies Telling Stories Good Old Days

Author:Dave Grohl

“My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.”

Focus Students Cost Performances Safety Priorities Obligation Instruction Classroom Unnecessary Involvement Parental Eliminating Administrative Parental Involvement

Author:John R. Leopold

“In the Zen Way we focus upon each breath, each day, each moment and experience it totally. One complete breath brings the next.”

Way Moments Next Focus Experience Breaths Each Day

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.”

Mind Time Focus Meditation Train Relax Stillness

Book:Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition

Source: Inner Tranquility: A Guide to Seated Meditation: 3rd Edition

“Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing”

Focus Becoming Who You Are

Author:Hal Elrod

“Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less”

Focus Achieve Becoming Becoming More

Author:Hal Elrod

“What you focus on, you create. So focus your attention consciously, and do not allow your attention to stray to results that you aren't interested in manifesting. Because you can, and will, create more of what you are focusing on.”

Results Attention Focus Manifest

Author:Mary Morrissey

“I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.”

Way Mean Would Be Able Acting Focus Painting Pressure Paint Painter Grades Splits Reluctant Sixth Grade

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.”

Focus Nervous Optimist Make Me Happy

Author:Demi Moore

“I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.”

People Thinking Important Attention Focus Models Insecure Validation

Author:Maud Adams

“To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.”

Needs Process Growth Behinds Company Focus Cost Concepts Strategy Simplicity Execution Efficiency Alignment Refining Great Company Assessing

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.”

Thinking Want Needs Writing Ideas Film Focus Right Ideas

Author:Jack Whitehall

“I don't really know how accepted I am. Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing. It's funny, you just focus on them and then the next movie. That's the only thing you're thinking about when it comes out.”

People Thinking Knows Matter Next Opinion Know How Focus Negative Accepted

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Luckily I had just finished a Marvel film so I was already in a training mentality and then this movie happened and I was really just trying to focus on like as much cardio as possible because in this film I do a lot of running and a lot of running in 100 degree heat in Austinit was like a sprintit was very much like all one shot running around, sprinting. So I had to build up my cardio to be able to get to that place and also not to like, die.”

Trying Running Able Film Dies Focus Happened Degrees Training Shots Finished Heat Mentality Cardio

Author:Cobie Smulders

“I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.”

Trying Artist Challenges Quality Roles Focus Involved Findings Productions Mediums Get Involved Intriguing Format

Author:Brian J. White

“What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.”

People Thinking Knows Should Might Values Asks House Focus Property Hyper

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“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.”

Ifs Stills I Can America Loses Effort Focus Serious Like You Hey Serious Things Hopping

Author:Maggie Q

“I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.”

Thinking Knows Want Age Wanted Actors Focus Lucky Eight What You Want Nine

Author:Ashley Jensen

“The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.”

“Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.”

Ifs Needs Goal Results Focus Plans Obsessed Backup Plan B

Author:Keshia Chante

“My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.”

Art Body Attention Silence Focus Understood Everyday Layers Everyday Life Assault Silence Is Noisy Search For Meaning Parts Of The Body Quilts Intervening

Book:Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics

Source: Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics

“Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.”

Actors Path Focus

Author:Craig Sheffer

“I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.”

People Has Beens Bigs Watches Creative Focus Lucky Creative People Mediation

Author:Russell Simmons

“God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam [Hussein], which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East. If you help me I will act, and if not, the elections will come and I will have to focus on them.”

Ifs Helping Problem Humor Political Focus Middle Election Solve Determined East Strikes Help Me Als Middle East Saddam Taliban Political Humor I Am Determined

Author:George W. Bush

“Focus not on who you are, but on what you can do for others.”

Culture Can Do Focus Who You Are Service Culture

Author:Ron Kaufman

“I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.”

Way Want Light Attention Consciousness Focus Communication Shining Train Seeking Yield Unlikely Conditioning Nonviolent Communication Leading Me

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.”

Needs Attention Focus Communication Mets Reminders Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.”

Thinking States Eye Moving Attention Focus Meditation Awareness Buddhism Letting Go Warm Meditating Sleepy Chakra Just Let Go Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.”

Heart Ideas Eye Focus Meditation Buddhism Thirds Good Ideas Chakra Third Eye Chakra Meditation Navel Heart Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit, is located in the center of the chest, dead center. If you focus there you will feel a warm and tingling sensation.”

Ifs Feels Years Firsts Heart Focus Meditation Buddhism Warm Sensations Chests Beneficial Chakra Sanskrit Chakra Meditation Heart Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Ingnore your thoughts. As you focus more intensely, you may feel as if you are floating.”

Ifs Feels May Focus Meditation Buddhism Floating Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus your awareness on the heart chakra. As you do, you will feel your consciousness shifting. You may feel different perceptions of energy in different parts of your body.”

Feels Heart May Different Body Energy Consciousness Focus Meditation Awareness Buddhism Perception Your Body Shifting Chakra Chakra Meditation Heart Chakra Different Perceptions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.”

Feels Mind Heart Attention Focus Meditation Buddhism Becoming Quiet Calm Bother Slow Down Slowing Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you meditate, feel that the flower is opening. Each time you open a set of petals you're going deeper into eternal awareness.”

Feels Heart Focus Meditation Awareness Flower Buddhism Eternal Rose Deeper Opening Petals Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on the center of the chest, relax. Imagine a rose there. Feel it unfolding. Let yourself go and ignore your thoughts.”

Feels Focus Meditation Imagine Buddhism Rose Relax Chests Unfolding Chakra Meditation

Author:Frederick Lenz

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