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Focus Quotes
"If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration."
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"Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't."
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"I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!"
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"It's hard to get into Newsweek because, as more of our former intellectual magazines take on a pop focus, if there's no buzz, there's no interest."
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"When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them."
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"We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas."
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"That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?"
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"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."
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"Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor."
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"Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues."
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"Don't keep looking for "something" in the bag of "nothing". You will see the same thing again and again no matter how many times you repeat the look."
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"Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme."
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"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do."
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"Among many people with you, but I only can see you."
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"This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here."
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"You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude."
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"Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime."
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"For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving."
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"Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr."
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"FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful."
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"The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety."
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"Begin each day with the hope of ending it with the bests of your steps. Plan the day ahead and ensure that the plans are worthy of ensuring your dreams are achieved. Get started."
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"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."
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"Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms."
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"Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?"
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"The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish."
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"If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation."
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"Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost."
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"Set your mind first and your body will follow."
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"My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience."
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