"Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies."
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"You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different."
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"Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone."
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"Charlie [Munger] and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity."
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"Self-actualizing people - highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness - train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won't let anybody change their mind."
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"I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid."
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"Concentration is the secret of srength."
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"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor."
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"These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries."
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"I think you have to protect your private life as much as you possibly can, and, at the same time, find ways to redirect that focus and turn the glare into a positive thing. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how anybody's ever done it."
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"Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear."
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"Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life."
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"Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you currently are focusing."
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"I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that."
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"'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis."
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"This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion."
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"Focus is more valuable than IQ."
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"What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life."
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"The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money."
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"They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world."
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