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“It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.”

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Author:Mike Singletary

“It is best to study from a teacher of ANY subject, as long as you focus on the teachings and NOT on the teacher. All of the real important answers to life's questions lie within your own mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?”

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Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“If your primary focus is to get over your health problems or get past a relationship crisis so that you can return to your former life and old patterns- that is, get back to business as usual-you are not really living. The distinction is paradoxical and sometimes subtle. It's the difference between walking through your life on your way to somewhere, and walking as your life. Even if you believe that where you want to get is extremely important, that destination is secondary. Your immediate experience is what really matters. It is your life.”

“Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.”

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Book:The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

Source: The Miracle Morning: The 6 Habits That Will Transform Your Life Before 8AM

“It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.”

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Author:Chita Rivera

“Having your goal to focus on is key, but don't let it become more important than your excellence next year and the year after.”

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Author:Bill Rodgers

“Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?”

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Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life. I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.”

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Author:David Burnett

“One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.”

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Author:Lorne Michaels

“What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.”

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Author:Joel Siegel

“Give yourself a compliment every day. I know this sounds silly, but it really is important. As girls, we spend countless hours focusing on our flaws and trying to correct them or cover them up. It's essential to focus on something you like about yourself. Maybe you're having a good hair day or your skin is looking especially healthy. Take a moment each day to focus on the good, and then try to carry that with you throughout the day, because while bangs don't look good on everyone, confidence does.”

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Author:Lauren Conrad

“Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.”

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Author:Kay WalkingStick

“If you're lucky enough to be able to have therapy -- because I know it's very privileged -- it gets rid of so much garbage and enables you to focus on what's important. When I first went into analysis, my mother was absolutely horrified. She thought I'd be a loony!”

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Author:Julie Andrews

“I don't think I'm stubborn. I just focus on the task at hand and do what it takes. Persistence is the single most important thing for success.”

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Author:Terry Matthews

“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.”

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Author:Ashley Tisdale

“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.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“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.”

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Book:Unlocking Your Legacy: 25 Keys for Success

Source: Unlocking Your Legacy: 25 Keys for Success

“The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.”

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Author:Michael Korda

“Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.”

“I should focus on other important issues like people's livelihoods and the economy.”

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Author:Donald Tsang

“The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?”

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Author:Peter Turchi

“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.”

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Author:Peter Kline

“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.”

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Author:Maud Adams

“My mother taught me to focus on being myself and not to worry what other people think about you. I know that as long as I'm a good person I'll stay on the right path. From my dad I learned that when someone tells you “No” it's only the beginning of a conversation. They both have always let me know that I can do anything I want to do as long as I don't give up. They are the most important role models in my life because they are exactly who I want to be when I grow up. They are supportive and understanding and I try every day to remember what they've taught me.”

“Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.”

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Author:Kendrick Meek

“I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.”

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Author:Sharon Van Etten

“My career is very important and I'm pretty ambitious. Marriage is not a priority, not the focus of my existence. Of course, you don't plan something like that, do you? It always catches you by surprise.”

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Author:Megan Gallagher

“In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.”

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Author:Thom Yorke

“It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.”

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Author:Jessica Jackley

“On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.”

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Author:Wolfgang Tillmans

“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.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed.”

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Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“A lot of times, I'll have a goal, I'll start writing, and I'll end up in some far off place, which is good. It's nice to have a focus, but letting the lyrics write themselves where they need to go is important.”

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Author:James Hetfield

“Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.”

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Author:Arlene Blum

“I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose.”

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Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team.”

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Author:Garfield Sobers

“I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.”

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Author:Tristan Prettyman

“Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.”

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Book:Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

Source: Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders

“My marriage is the most important thing in my life, but in a weird way I'm able to focus on other things more clearly by having it in my life.”

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Author:Max Bemis

“Always have a plan B and C, because if it doesn't work out there are other things you can focus on. It's important to have a balance to your life, regardless of what you're doing. I've been playing at this level for a long time, but I've got interests outside of rugby, like my family and my children. They keep me sane.”

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Author:Filo Tiatia

“It is important to communicate to children about what we are going through. We often speak in half truths. We don't frame the truth or explain our experience in terms they can understand. We need to take time to do this. What has to happen is that more people have to get involved with more children. Focus energy on the child. Children are raising themselves these days in all sorts of strange ways.”

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Author:James Redfield

“As for major obstacles keeping young Latinos from becoming filmmakers, I think our communities are still coming into their identities as storytellers. It's such an important identity to reclaim - it's how our ancestors kept our cultures alive. But a long history of silencing, invisibility, and marginalization has kept generations of Latinos from believing in themselves, from seeing themselves as agents of their own lives. I think there needs to be a focus on this aspect to help cultivate young Latinas to see themselves as cultural producers and defenders.”

“I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.”

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Author:Alan Lightman

“It's remarkable to watch the president, with all the weight of his ability to command rhetoric with the bully pulpit behind him, make a clear speech about climate change and why that's so important for us all to focus on. And that is a rather remarkable thing to see. It's enormously powerful.”

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Author:Josh Fox

“We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.”

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Author:Eric Barker

“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

“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

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