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"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."
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Personal Development
"You can't excel in everything but you can be exceptional in a few things, so why not choose your life's focus?"
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Personal Development
"Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention."
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Personal Development
"Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus."
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Personal Development
"In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea-and there always is one-is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long."
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Personal Development
"Attention serves a person better when he or she works for it and then lets it come."
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Personal Development
"Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks!"
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Personal Development
"Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action."
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Personal Development
"If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing."
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Personal Development
"To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal."
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Personal Development
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"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."
Family
"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."
Work
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
History
"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."
Life
"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."
Society
"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."
Music
"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."
Time
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
Focus
"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed."
Work
"History's just been made for sale to an inside deal."
History
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