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Focus Quotes
"The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all."
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"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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"We have a pretty tough schedule coming up. We have to stay strong mentally and must focus on getting better."
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"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time."
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"Your mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention."
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"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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"If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows."
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"But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
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"Who is doing this? Who am I? What is all this? Who is the doer? Who is the nimit (instrumental doer) of this? If all these remain present 'at a time' exactly the way it is, then that is considered shuddha upayog (pure focused applied awareness of the Self, the Soul)."
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"Invest your life into what you were born to do."
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"To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity."
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"The more you concentrate on what you discover that you will be good for you to pursue, the more experienced you will be while doing it."
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"When there is no specific task, the human's subconscious mind will be in a passive state."
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"Concentrate on what is important, not what is urgent."
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"Leave no stone unturned. Leave no bone unbroken. Drive your life with care and don't dose off while you do so. If you don't wake up, you are likely miss you way!"
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"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
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"Employment leaves you distracted."
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"The black world was expanding before me, and I could see now that that world was more than a photonegative of that of the people who believe they are white. 'White America' is a syndicate arrayed to protect its exclusive power to dominate and control our bodies. Sometimes this power is direct (lynching), and sometimes it is insidious (redlining). But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, 'white people' would cease to exist for want of reasons."
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"The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment."
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"What takes first place in your heart determines your pursuit."
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"That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains."
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"If you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time."
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"The ink in the pen that writes success stories is "FOCUS"..."
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"When you are on a great mission, look simple;think and act complexly."
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"Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing."
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"A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey."
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"Keep off your mind from the reward until the work is done, else you may be directed out of focus by the reward's appeals if it catches your attention!"
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"Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus."
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"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."
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"To reach your target quicker, don't lose your time by looking back!"
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"Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education."
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"Think of success. Dream of Success. Live for success."
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"To prevent your time from just melting into vanity, you must race against time and stand in the way of time so you could convert it to tangible products."
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