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“With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.”

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Author:Jerry Jones

“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control-myself. I can stop trying to shape up my wife and can work on my own weaknesses. I can focus an being a great marriage partner, a source of unconditional love and support. Hopefully, my wife will feel the power of proactive example and respond in kind. But, whether she does or doesn't, the most positive way I can influence my situation is to work on myself, on my being.”

“The thing I wanted to focus on first was that I wanted to graduate, and (with me) coming back, I knew that I wanted another national championship. Another national championship is everyone's main goal, but we have to take it one game at a time. We can't get ahead of ourselves. We've got Washington first, then we'll see what happens.”

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Author:Will Smith

“The outlook on practice is we really have to prepare harder. We really have to focus harder on everything - we can't slack off. Any slacking off is going to put us behind.”

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Author:Darrion Scott

“Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.”

“I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.”

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Author:Karen Russell

“Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within Nazism, the omnipotent and insane idea of wanting to generically modify an entire nation. This idea was not on the outskirts of Nazi ideology, it was the heart of movement, that's what intrigued me. Mengele is the most extreme expression of this idea.”

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Author:Lucia Puenzo

“I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.”

“Make sure it is not too diverse or spread out so people don't know where to go or what to do. So keep a sharp focus. It can be ambitious but should have a small agenda.”

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Author:Amy Ziering

“Figure out the one solution - not three - that you want to see happen. There were quite a few things we could have gone after but we decided to focus on the commanders and that was a strategic decision because that, for us, would be the most vulnerable point and the most effective one that could immediately change.”

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Author:Amy Ziering

“Those of us who have gone through breast cancer treatment will say "yes" ..we absolutely need to focus on prevention. I never want my daughter to go through what I have gone through...never.”

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Author:Ravida Din

“The most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.”

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Author:Nina Jacobson

“All any filmmaker can do is focus on creating something that has depth and resonance, and then do whatever possible to get it seen by audiences and hope the word spreads.”

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Author:Megan Griffiths

“There's a real difference between a documentary that was all about facts and history and information. People just don't get as engaged in that kind of documentary - they don't fall in love, they don't cry, they don't forget who they are, they don't ride with you. As we realized we had richer, vérité kind of people, what we wanted to do is focus in on the vérité story.”

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Author:Abigail Disney

“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.”

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Author:Amanda Ripley

“With a project like 'Teachers Lounge,' you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.”

Ifs Want Hard Focus Teacher Hard Work Demand Projects Hats

Author:Ted Alexandro

“It's wrong to focus only on economic cooperation and then to hope that a sufficiently stable system will become democratic more or less by itself. The EU needs to urge its neighbors to pursue both economic stability and political modernization in equal measures.”

Needs Political Focus Economic Equal Democratic Neighbor Pursue Urges Cooperation Stability Stable Modernization Economic Stability Economic Cooperation

Author:Alvaro de Vasconcelos

“No one wants to say they hate their own body. Many are scared that if they confide in others then people will look down on them. This is wrong. It's not weak to talk about it. On the contrary. It's the same with alcoholics and drug addicts - you have to be honest with yourself first. When you have accepted the negatives you can then focus on the positives, like, I have nice hair, nice eyes, great cheekbones.”

“The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.”

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Author:Laurel Nakadate

“Each character requires different language, and these issues become inseparable. You have all these balls in the air: language, character, narrative. For me, the primary focus must be words, sentences, paragraphs.”

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Author:Dana Spiotta

“Focus on opportunities, not problems.”

Problem Opportunity Focus

Book:The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

Source: The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking

“Oftentimes, especially during my recovery, I didn't need to think about everything I was doing wrong; instead, I needed to focus more on what I was doing right-and then do more of the right stuff. I needed to live more in the solution.”

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Author:Jenni Schaefer

“We want people doing white hat search engine optimization (or even no search engine optimization at all) to be free to focus on creating amazing, compelling web sites. As always, we’ll keep our ears open for feedback on ways to iterate and improve our ranking algorithms toward that goal.”

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Author:Matt Cutts

“Never focus on your problems. Focus on your possibilities. The problems will pull you down. The possibilities will push you up”

Problem Focus Possibility

Book:Five Things You Need To Do Before You Die

Source: Five Things You Need To Do Before You Die

“Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.”

Prayer Focus Identity Fervent True Identity Fervent Prayer

Book:Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

Source: Fervent: A Woman's Battle Plan to Serious, Specific and Strategic Prayer

“Always focus on the outcome of a desired act.”

Focus Outcomes

Author:Peter Lowe

“We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections”

Knows Attention Brain Focus Information Connections Focused Maps Focused Attention

Book:Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Source: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“Indian manufacturing is constrained in its growth by the fact that it just can't ship goods in and out fast enough to compete with Chinese delivery time. India needs to really focus on this aspect if it is going to grow at anything above 7 percent.”

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Author:Arjuna Mahendran

“The focus on process rather than purpose creates an insidious opportunity for sly employees to manipulate the system.”

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Book:Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

Source: Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

“I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.”

Want Focus Design Live By Default

Book:What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions

Source: What's It Like to Be Married to Me?: And Other Dangerous Questions

“The Lord is my peace. I shall not live in anxiety. He puts me under His wing of comfort and calms my spirit within me. He takes all my anxieties on Himself and helps me to focus on Him. Yes, though I walk through a time of grave uncertainties and fierce anxieties, I will not fret - for You are my peace. Your Word and Your presence calm me now. You hold my uncertainties in the palm of Your hand. You soothe my anxious mind - You smooth my wrinkled brow. Surely serenity and trust in You shall fill me all the days of my life. And I shall keep my mind stayed on You forever.”

Source: My Journey to Contentment: A Companion Journal for Calm My Anxious Heart

“Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.”

Heart Can Do Focus

Author:Lois W.

“And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you're going through family troubles, when you're heartbroken, when you're frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.”

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Author:Teresita Fernandez

“We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into businesses that also positively contribute to social or environmental benefits in Ontario. Angel investors can help social enterprises grow and succeed, and through our partnership with the Network of Angel Organizations and the Impact Angel Alliance, we are making it easier for social ventures and angel investors to connect, contribute, and make our society a better place to live.”

“I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.”

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Author:Coco Austin

“I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.”

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Author:John Polson

“Our focus is on ensuring America has the strongest economy in the world for the next 100 years and to do that, we need to get to the role of the Federal Reserve and we need to get it right.”

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Author:Kevin Brady

“And I am convinced that a single focus on preserving the purchasing power of the dollar, in effect, guarding against inflation or deflation, actually creates a solid foundation for the greatest job growth and the strongest economy that America can have.”

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Author:Kevin Brady

“The industry should take comfort in knowing that WinStar is my main focus after my faith and family.”

Should Knowing Focus Industry Comfort Faith And Family

Author:Kenny Troutt

“TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up.”

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Author:Emily Rios

“I went to see "The Piano" with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.”

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Author:Cherry Jones

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”

People Men America Black White Existence Focus Groups Identity Black People Black Women

Book:Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Source: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.”

Want Loses Focus Succeed What You Want Doing You

Author:Kevin Smith

“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

“Focus on loving the life you have now in the body you’ve got!”

Body Focus

Book:Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: Change Your Thoughts-Change Your Life (Easyread Large Edition)

“It breaks my heart when couples focus more on being wed than being married. Two become one doesn't happen without work, humility, and sacrifice.”

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Author:Mark Hart

“Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.”

Knows World May Said Whole Memories Focus Teacher Our Lives Whole World Right Time Influential Snaps

Book:Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)

Source: Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)

“Don't worry about where you are or what you have or even what you think you want. Take one step at a time and worry only about only this - who you are - who you really are. Find what you love, love what makes you happy - try giving instead of getting, try caring instead of hating. Remove the mindless distractions from your life and focus on the things and people that matter the most to you. Follow your heart to discover what makes you happy, never let go of it, never devalue anything that is beautiful, and build a life that lets you be yourself.”

“The thing that's important for me to focus on is the balancing of the tension between satisfying myself and satisfying an audience, and making something that I think is good and funny, worthwhile, small-"i" important, versus something that's going to do well.”

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Author:Andy Richter

“Film is so much about that intensity of focus that there always needs to be some tension and some forward motion. The novel goes into a series of lovely observations about the world, but you've got to find the story.”

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Author:Lenny Abrahamson

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