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Focus Quotes
"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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"Don't be envious of the runner in the lane next to you, just focus on finishing your race."
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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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"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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"Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities."
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"Employment leaves you distracted."
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"If you must be great, you must learn to check and compel yourself to invest time."
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"Your mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention."
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"A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey."
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"Invest your life into what you were born to do."
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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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"For you to be great, you must become conscious of what you are doing per time."
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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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"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time."
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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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"You are ruled by whatever you invest your time, energy and emotions into. Check in with yourself. What is taking up your time and energy? Where is the focus of your emotions? If there are not where you want them to be, course correct. Remember, whatever you give energy to grows. So grow everything good and beneficial that will also help bring you to a better space and frame of mind. Make the best of each day, of each moment. Give time, love and attention to those and that which you love."
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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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"Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education."
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"What takes first place in your heart determines your pursuit."
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"Stay focused, leave everything and do something."
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"When you can't focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything."
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"I have discovered that you will achieve nothing if you pursue everything. Be specific and stay focused."
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"If we do not set the time limits, we can get caught up in the process and never achieve the goal."
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"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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"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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"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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"Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn."
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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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"To be busy minding other people's business, is to leave one's personal business unattended to."
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"Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another."
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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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"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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"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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