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"This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion."
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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
"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
"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
"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
"Focus is not a state of single-mindedly pursuing one goal or objective without getting distracted. Rather, it's a commitment to exert all concentration and effort through constant adjustment like the lens of the human eye on a vision or purpose."
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Personal Development
"All battles are not created equal; a few offer good rewards and are worthy of your attention but most are a waste of your time, energy and focus."
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Personal Development
"Present opportunities are neglected and attainable good is slighted by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages."
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"It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern."
Government
"We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians."
Government
"I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage."
Marriage
"The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government."
Government
"This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion."
Focus
"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
Politics
"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
Government
"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."
Government
"What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it."
Government
"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy."
Policy
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