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“Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.”

Needs Giving Dream Action Desire Goal Ability Powerful Focus Achieve Shapes Setting Settings Our Dreams Setting Goals

Author:Jim Rohn

“Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.”

Focus Activity Accomplishment

Book:The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

Source: The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

“Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.”

Needs Sometimes Running Lines Roles Focus Keys Diversity Areas Organization Function

Author:Gracia Martore

“Relationships matter above all, and that you build relationships by making yourself useful, not annoying. The PR practitioner should focus on providing helpful service to the journalist whenever possible. Help them source good story ideas, provide sources with intelligent contributions to make, thank them for their time and attention.”

Should Ideas Matter Helping Stories Attention Focus Source Intelligent Journalist Contribution Helpful Annoying Providing Good Story

Author:Laura Fitton

“Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.”

Important Real Government Environment Focus Promise Solutions Neglect Federal Government Our Environment

Author:Barack Obama

“Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.”

“I mean, that was a throwaway thought, because my focus was - my intent and my focus was to never go public.”

Mean Girl Focus Mean Girls

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.”

Ideas Language Focus Forums

Author:Clayton Christensen

“After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.”

Thinking Body Focus Meditation Commitment Motivated Hitting Buttons Juice Cleansing Reset Reset Button

Author:Salma Hayek

“When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.”

Energy Focus Possibility Access Surrender Endless Sensitivity Endless Possibilities Expansiveness

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.”

Want Focus Endless Release Cycles Invites

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“Do not focus on being happy, focus on doing something useful; afterwards, happiness will flow towards you!”

Happiness Focus Flow

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.”

People Ifs Different Success Passion Perfect Focus Flower Waste Compare Pace Wasting Time Chasing Great Success Blooming Flower Don't Waste Time Comparing Yourself Comparing Yourself To Others

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Regardless, heterosexual marriage is largely in trouble today because people see it as a selfish means of pleasing self, rather than a committed relationship in which the focus is on meeting the needs of the partner, that sense of selfishness and the redefinition of love as to something that is purely sentimental and emotional, has been destructive.”

“I tend to avoid the shows that focus on politics, just to get a break from it all, i tried watching the first couple episodes of 'House of Cards,' but I thought it was way over the top. Members of Congress aren't anything like Frank Underwood. Most of us are far less interesting.”

Way Firsts Shows House Politics Interesting Break Focus Couple Members Congress Cards Frank Episodes Over The Top House Of Cards

Author:Paul Ryan

“We are so fortunate that our work in connecting the world through Facebook has given us the ability to give back to our local community, our country and the world -- and to work to improve education, health care and internet access for everyone, to serve our community in San Francisco, we can think of no better place to focus than The General.”

“I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan.”

States Helping Change United United States Focus Building Stronger Afghanistan

Author:Hamid Karzai

“It's our job to do everything possible to keep the international community's focus on MH17. That's our obligation to the victims and their loved ones.”

Jobs Community Focus Victim International Obligation Loved Ones International Community

Author:Sergey Lavrov

“I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.”

Attention Focus

Author:Joshua Roman

“I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.”

Ifs Men Long Wonder Watches Focus Crime Prove Ethics Window Commit Ethical Lenses Binoculars Rear Window

Author:John Michael Hayes

“Focus on something the customer wants, and then deliver it.”

Want Focus Customers Walmart

Book:Sam Walton: Made In America

Source: Sam Walton: Made In America

“Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.”

Needs Giving Children Focus Our Children Your Children Loving You

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“The truth is, I can choose to view tough times as growing times, I can choose to see aging as seasoning and I can choose to focus on whatever good there is to be found in living. I choose. After all, it's my point of view.”

I Can Found Views Focus Growing Truth Is Tough Aging Point Of View Tough Times Seasoning

Author:Steve Goodier

“What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike.”

Real Pain Water Struggle Focus Effects Danger Fields Wind Tables Threat Misery Environmental Workers Consumers Legacy Poison Farms Pollution Crops Grapes Pesticides

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.”

Way Looks Action Focus Wife Love You Communicate Dialogue Another Way I Love You Say I Love You

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.”

“Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.”

People Want Home Focus Groups Waste Filled What You Want Wasting Time Focus Groups

Author:Sergio Zyman

“Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.”

People Together Differences Focus Accomplish Productivity Great Things Making A Difference Working Together

Author:John C. Maxwell

“But I'm a patient, so I have to focus on recuperation”

Focus Patient Recuperation

Author:Aya Kito

“I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.”

Thinking Want Feels Hard Goal Ability Quality Leader Careers Focus Hard Work Female Males Missions Noise Nonsense Interfere Goal Oriented

Author:Anne Sweeney

“It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.”

People Hours Focus One Thing Music Is Just Do It

Author:Fetty Wap

“When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free”

Today Past Lying Fall Focus Possibility Yesterday Release You Choose Layers

Book:When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back

Source: When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back

“Unlike the book, with a documentary, you get a chance to show much more texture and color. Film gives you get a chance to focus on much more individuals who are pivotal in changing the landscape of American culture.”

Giving Book Shows Film Culture Individual Chance Focus Color Landscape Documentaries American Culture Texture Pivotal

Author:Steve Stoute

“But after about a year praying, there was just this clear direction. The leadership team believed that God was leading us to focus on fatherhood. If God is leading, then God will provide. So we begin to get storyline ideas that lined up with the subject of fatherhood that we're working on and fitting, and we were thinking, okay this is good. At the same time, as we are studying scriptures and we're on our journey as fathers, we are learning about fatherhood every day.”

Ifs Thinking Years Ideas Father Study Clear Focus Journey Team Subjects Praying Okay Scripture Gods Will Fatherhood Fitting Storyline God Will Provide Clear Direction

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.”

“What I love to tell young kids is ultimately let your dreams evolve around your opportunities. You have to focus on always learning. It's cliche, but the reality of it is that if you take action and try and fail you're gonna learn a lot by the time you try it again, and you'll build a foundation of experience that's gonna be ultimately the rock that allows you to find success or follow your dreams.”

Ifs Trying Dream Reality Kids Action Young Opportunity Focus Failing Rocks Foundation Evolve Your Dreams Follow Your Dreams Cliche Always Learning

Author:Rob Dyrdek

“I'm capable offstage of having some dark, twisted thoughts but the kind of things I like to do onstage are just more conceptual and I don't even think of them as being clean. I don't sit down and think, "Man, I'm going to come up with some lily-white comedy!" They're just things that I like to talk about, and then at the end of the day you think, "Well, I guess that was clean" but it's not the focus.”

Thinking Men Wells Kind Ends Dark White Comedy Focus Capable Down And Clean Come Up The End Of The Day Twisted Lilies Dark Twisted

Author:Brian Regan

“Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.”

Needs Art Order Focus Art Is Eliminating

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.”

Ifs World Should Writing Firsts Can Do Attention Worry Focus Succeed Demon Maintaining

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I encourage costumers to not focus on trends but to just wear whatever they feel like wearing because I think that's when a woman looks most attractive - when she's the most comfortable.”

Thinking Feels Looks Focus Comfortable Attractive Trends

Author:Nicole Richie

“The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy.”

Today Energy Answers Technology Democracy Focus Century Source Economics Available Alternatives Compelling 21st Century Public Health Energy Sources Subversion 17th Century Alternative Energy

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.”

Kind Grows Born Growing Up Focus Mines Healthy Raised Born And Raised

Author:Jeffrey Wright

“Writing and directing has always been my first passion. That's where the focus of my energy is.”

Writing Firsts Passion Energy Focus

Author:Sean Stone

“I try not to think about my public life. I focus on my private life, and that's just the best way to live.”

Thinking Way Trying Focus Best Way Private Life Public Life Way To Live

Author:Angelina Jolie

“On the road you have to be more organized. Also, a crowd's energy helps you focus. Nothing compares to playing live. You have to slamdunk whatever you're playing. In the studio, you can do things over.”

Helping Energy Can Do Focus Crowds Studios Compare Organized

Author:Chris Wyse

“I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.”

Thinking World Reason Common Focus Taught Core Reason Why Fixing

Author:Eve Ensler

“When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.”

Writing Song Focus Figures Features Rapper Duets

Author:John Legend

“The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.”

Want Trying Song Voice Views Focus Albums Point Of View Partners Duets

Author:John Legend

“I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.”

Want Causes Stuff Sound My Own Focus Degrees Albums Bunch Tempted

Author:John Legend

“You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.”

Want Different Seems Pay Attention Focus What You Want Pay Attention Concessions

Author:Julian Schnabel

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