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“I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.”

Way Trying Use Stuff Attention Deserve Focused

Author:Natalie Portman

“My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.”

Done Eye Jobs Values Vision Balls Focused Stay Focused

Author:Barack Obama

“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.”

“I've been essentially not only deconstructing and reconstructing the material to make it suitable for the performance, but I've gone back and found some older material that's appropriate for the show and I've re-recorded that as well in kind of a newer format. So I've been pretty much focused on my own thing.”

Wells Kind Shows Found My Own Gone Materials Performances Focused Appropriate Suitable Format Reconstructing

Author:Todd Rundgren

“Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.”

Games Gay Threat International Terrorism Focused Campaigns Propaganda Putin Anti Gay Sochi

Author:George Packer

“My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.”

Littles Art Made Parent Saws Crazy College Focused Theatre Graduates Traveled Budgeting

Author:Jennifer Garner

“Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.”

Ends School Used Hours High School Focused Saved Obsessed Microscopes Algae Microorganisms Microbiology

Author:Randy Schekman

“Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.”

Practice Environment Determined Focused Deliberate Feedback Deliberate Practice

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.”

Records Focus Cutting One Thing Hair Focused Shops

Author:Theophilus London

“You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.”

Real Vision Passionate Focused Tenacious

Author:Jessica Alba

“Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.”

People Way Self Loses Wealth Successful Journey Share Humility Keys Embrace Fruit Humble Credit Focused Hungry Arrogance Successful People Traps Key To Success Halt My Journey

Author:Rick Pitino

“We also need to be willing to make room in our lives for the impending birth of our dreams. This might mean emptying our life of clutter such as wasted time, energy, resources, or draining relationships. These things can jeopardize our dreams by distracting us at a time when we should be more focused than ever.”

Needs Should Mean Dream Might Energy Rooms Our Lives Willing Birth Resources Focused Our Dreams Clutter Wasted Time Draining Jeopardize

Author:Christine Caine

“I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.”

Focused

Author:Peter Munk

“The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.”

Able Courses Teacher Risk Teaching Speech Regard Focused Eras Freedom Of Speech Discourse Exceptional Framework Educator Jesuit Incurring

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see.”

Long Bigs Happens Spiritual Process Happenings Miracle Focused Things Happen Realms Amazing Things Make Things Happen Life Altering Yes You Can

Author:Ruben Papian

“I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.”

Men Feels Girl New York Focused

Author:Hilton Als

“You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.”

Stills Serious Tasks Focused

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be as kind as possible to everyone you work with. The goal, every day, is keeping focused on that.”

Thinking Kind Important Goal Discipline Focused Hardest Obedient Perfectionist

Author:Natalie Portman

“Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.”

Kind Use Able Imagination Seeing Focused Muscles Belly Stay Focused

Author:Keri Russell

“The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.”

Attention Focused Bread Bread And Butter

Author:Al Yankovic

“Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.”

Individual Focused Gym Capitalist Breakdown

Author:Jenny Hval

“I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times.”

Feels Writing Enjoy Focused

Author:Debbie Harry

“I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.”

Way Want Persons Whole Certain Records Beats Concepts Come Up Albums Focused Bunch Rapper Compilation

Author:Flying Lotus

“People still stereotype all day long. But if you forget your own age, you'll get so focused on the business that you become ultra-confident and people will forget to question how old you are.”

People Ifs Long Stills Age Forget Focused Stereotype Forget You Old You Ultras

Author:Gurbaksh Chahal

“I think if I'm guilty of anything, I'm guilty of always being incredibly focused on the task at hand. So wherever I've worked, I've just always tried to do my best, achieve my best, build a great team around me.”

Ifs Thinking Hands Team Achieve Tasks Focused Guilty Great Team Task At Hand

Author:Angela Ahrendts

“Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.”

Feels Mind Body Pain Awareness Focused Severe Mind And Body Severe Pain

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Night Hours Sleep Animal Party Successful Personality Pure Clean Eight Focused Honestly Organised Party Animal

Author:Jessie J

“When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.”

Hard Suffering Careers Focused Working Really Hard

Author:Lauren Conrad

“You go in the weight room and you lift weights and you do all these things to strengthen your body. This is strengthening your mind. When you can stay focused and you can use that focus to always come back with your breath to center yourself, so that you're kind of floating in the moment, in the spirit.”

Mind Kind Moments Use Body Spirit Rooms Focus Weight Breaths Focused Your Body Lifts Floating Stay Focused Strengthening Weight Room

Author:Phil Jackson

“If you look around the world and I can tell you right now that the majority of the planet is focused on certainty and significance. And those two absolutely guarantee unhappiness. Because if you're driven by significance, it doesn't matter what you achieve, it's never enough.”

Ifs World Looks I Can Two Matter Enough Achieve Planets Right Now Majority Focused Driven Certainty Around The World Guarantees Significance Unhappiness

Author:Tony Robbins

“I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.”

People Thinking Giving Feels I Can Helping Impact Everyday Focused Everyday Life Stay Focused

Author:Joel Osteen

“I'm not perfect, but I think that I've done good to stay focused on what I'm called to do.”

Thinking Done Perfect Focused Not Perfect Stay Focused I'm Not Perfect

Author:Joel Osteen

“My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.”

Persons Self Mother Ultimate Focused Practicals Pragmatic

Author:Ursula Burns

“Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.”

People Feels Home Care Jobs Company Careers Nice College Focused Etc Runway

Author:Ursula Burns

“I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.”

Believe Wells Kids School Smart Gold University Focused Medical California Awards Believe In Me Honored San Francisco Medical School Valedictorians Smart Kid

Author:Richard Carmona

“COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.”

“Almost all the United Commonwealth presidents have been female. It has been argued that women are less aggressive, more maternal, and thus more focused on the well-being of the country's people. Less focused on politics or power.”

People Wells Has Beens Country President United Female Focused Well Being Aggressive Commonwealth

Book:The Testing 2: Independent Study

Source: The Testing 2: Independent Study

“I guess for me, balance isn't about treating your time like a pie chart and dividing it into equally sized slices for you, the kids, work, and so on. It's about the quality of how you spend your time, not the quantity--are you being present and focused on whatever you're doing while you're doing it? I truly believe that's how you can be the best version of yourself, whether you're in work mode, mom mode, or wife mode. When I know I'm giving my undivided attention in each of these areas, I don't feel so guilty about the time spent away from them.”

Source: The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You

“In a world that is deepening its mutual interdependence, inward-focused thinking is no longer able to safeguard the peace of Japan. We will fully defend the lives and assets of our nationals as well as our territory, territorial waters, and territorial airspace in a resolute manner.”

Thinking World Wells Able Water Focused Japan Mutual Assets Territory Inward Interdependence Resolute Territorial

Author:Shinzo Abe

“I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.”

Writing Years Might Felt Bits Acting Offers Focused Bells Bugs Stale

Author:Mel Gibson

“What is pronounced these days is staying on the Internet for hours. It's really about distraction. We are living in such an over stimulated culture. There's a nervous energy of always having to be focused out there. People have a hard time just being happy, settled, and content. We're not taught how to just be by ourselves, be present. We always want to change the channel in our minds because we don't like what's going on. It's uncomfortable.”

People Want Mind Hard Culture Energy Hours Taught Internet Focused Nervous These Days Uncomfortable Hard Times Staying Distraction Just Being

Author:Geneen Roth

“I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.”

People Needs Ends Team Fronts Tools Focused Users Site User Experience

Author:Jimmy Wales

“I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.”

Real Seems Perfect Scene Focused

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.”

Given Levels Shapes Beats Tough Focused Tough Times Mayweather Floyd Mayweather Ricky Hatton

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.”

World Years War Self Focus Stage Survival Definitions Focused Fulfillment War Of The Worlds Transition World War Ii World War I Self Fulfillment

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“Although our grammar schools are teaching a whole generation computer language to adjust to the technological needs of a Stage II [post survival-focused] society, we have neglected to teach this generation relationship language and conflict resolution skills to address the social and psychological needs of a Stage II society. And when it is taught, in countries like Germany, although called social competence it focuses on workplace teamwork - still on survival, breadwinner oriented work goals.”

“It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.”

People Wells Seems Party Effort Mets Sticks Focused Officials Thoughtful Elected Officials

Author:Sergey Brin

“Seeing movies about mental illness, a lot of falseness has leapt out at me over the years... So I just focused on what I remembered, the real experience of seeing somebody like that. And as an adult, I’ve had family members who are bipolar, so I’ve seen it again.”

Years Real Seeing Members Adults Illness Focused Mental Illness Remembered Family Members Bipolar Falseness

Author:Maya Forbes

“The general rule is that my life is focused on the present, and very little on the past. If anything, I'm a little bit more focused toward the future.”

Ifs Littles Past Life Is Bits Little Bit Focused

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.”

Want Long Has Beens Hard Helping Bigs Jobs Grows Party Republican Taxes Add Focused Crush Enterprise Small Business Big Business Regulators

Author:Mitt Romney

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