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"I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work."
"You can do anything, but you can't do everything"
"If your attention is focused only on the result, then you are no longer in the process. But if you're in the process, then the result is guaranteed."
"In order to create success and money in your life, your intent and focus must be clear. You can then let the universe take care of the details."
"Focus on nurturing your healthy relationships so that they are even more loving and fulfilling."
"A gentle focus of attention is all it takes to free the body of minor imbalances."
"It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D."
"Teams should be able to act with the same unity of purpose and focus as a well motivated individual."
"Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. [...] What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can?"
"Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all."
"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."
"Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages."
"Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions rather than on those vast forces not of man's making that shape and channel the nature and direction of life."
"I've always been making original music. I think that when I sat down with Losing Focus, I approached it different. I had a clearer understanding of who I was talking to, because I was able to go out and tour and see them right in front of me. I wanted to speak to them and speak about this lifestyle."
"No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat."
"tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively."
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
"Marketing should focus on market creation, not market sharing"
"Focus on being productive instead of busy."
"The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS"
