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The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, a...

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Brian TracyEat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is ...

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In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this w...

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I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to th...

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All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how ...

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It may be the character of his mind, to be always in singular need of occupation. That may be, in pa...

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Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities

I found myself with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sl...

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Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of pe...

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Unfortunately, it seems to me that when it comes to issues affecting the trans community, most peopl...

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The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind...

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Eve...

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Normal people attempt countless goals with limited success. Weird people focus on just one God-given...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in t...

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One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them mana...

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Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a ne...

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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% ...

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I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on w...

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Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.

It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own gam...

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We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with o...

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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your ...

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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and o...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put...

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Eleanor RooseveltYou Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life

Only through constant focus can you become independent. Only through independence can you know yours...

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You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell yo...

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My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all ...

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Elmore LeonardElmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus ...

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I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make t...

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He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the...

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One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

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Henry Ward BeecherLife Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for ...

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Most of the church landscape in my lifetime has been heavily invested in trying to do something for ...

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James MacDonaldVertical Church: What Every Heart Longs for. What Every Church Can Be.

People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smil...

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To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competi...

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I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to tr...

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Some people are naturally thin, and some are heavier. There is a lot of focus on it, and it can be a...

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Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focu...

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Jim ButcherStorm Front

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he...

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My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of ...

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Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of...

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Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody doe...

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...the mind is just as immeasurable as the vast universe. An integral being settles his mind just as...

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LaoziHua Hu Ching: The Unknown Teachings of Lao Tzu

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to...

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...on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pi...

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Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a g...

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I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, i...

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I think it is important that you have people from all different vanguards, from all different walks ...

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If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed...

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There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone...

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All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesti...

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Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not on...

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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-wor...

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If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and be...

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I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus...

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[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to...

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[T]he success of every novel -- if it's a novel of action -- depends on the high spots. The thing to...

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Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exac...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call th...

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Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal...

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The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics ...

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What I must do is all that concerns me,

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Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance and Other Essays

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the...

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A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforc...

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After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like m...

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Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...

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Samuel JohnsonThe Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, kn...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessi...

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Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to ...

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That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to...

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Focusing is about saying No.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to...

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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I do...

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The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to av...

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Thomas HughesTom Brown's Schooldays & Tom Brown at Oxford

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor ...

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We're very simple people at Apple. We focus on making the world's best products and enriching people...

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In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are ...

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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the ...

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Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is...

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Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at...

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One of Job's great strengths was knowing how to focus. " Deciding what not to do is as important as ...

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What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest, because they’re dragging you d...

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Jobs also used the meetings to enforce focus. At Robert Friedland's farm, his job had been to prune ...

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