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Focus Quotes
"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."
106
"If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration."
85
"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!"
65
"The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil."
60
"Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues."
58
"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."
56
"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do."
52
"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."
50
"You must learn focus and concentration for you to enjoy solitude."
50
"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."
49
"For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving."
47
"Each of my records has a different focus, a different theme."
46
"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."
46
"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?"
46
"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."
46
"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."
46
"Among many people with you, but I only can see you."
43
"This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here."
43
"Focusing is about saying No."
43
"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."
42
"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."
42
"We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas."
41
"Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr."
41
"FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful."
41
"The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety."
40
"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."
39
"If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better."
37
"When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them."
37
"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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