"If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors."
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"If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling."
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"The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming."
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"What you focus on always gets better."
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"Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no."
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"And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it."
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"I hate to say this, but one of the biggest distractions can be friends and family. You want them to be there and support you, but when you need to get your rest or focus, you need to communicate that to them."
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"Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort."
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"It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time."
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"Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life."
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"Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear."
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"Let’s focus on where you could end up, not where you were or are."
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."
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"Teenagers only have to focus on themselves - its not until we get older that we realize that other people exist."
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"I'm always open to questions asked, and it will be up to me at that moment to decide if I want to answer or not. I've always been the kind of artist that wanted to focus so much more on the music than all these other things. For example, "what does it feel like to be a female in a male dominated industry"?"
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"I'm really trying to focus on the storytelling, more so than ever before I think, partly because it makes for easier pages."
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"Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be."
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"When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto ‘how you can turn this into something beautiful’ pretty remarkable things start to happen."
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"I don't typically do what you're supposed to do. I focus on what I should do."
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"Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission--the one only you can fulfill."
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