"As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result."
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"Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities."
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"The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on."
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"My biggest thing is to teach not to focus on the aesthetic. It's really about who you are, and the human being, that makes you beautiful."
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"Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing."
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"I think we definitely want to focus on the simplicity aspect because it's something that's built into the culture even here at Twitter. Constraints inspire creativity."
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"TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable."
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"Focus on your strengths."
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"Oran Hesterman is a brilliant philanthropist. He had so many progressive ideas about shifting the way that money is given out. He wanted to focus on the creation of healthy, community-based food systems in historically excluded communities and now an advocate, an ally, and obviously lots of capital won't be able to go into these communities now."
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"Focus on your music and not technology."
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"Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs."
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"There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away."
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"If it is not an interesting picture when in focus, it is not going to be a better picture out of focus."
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"I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem."
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"I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the sentence, are really important to me in prose."
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"That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs."
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"Dance improves your ability to concentrate because your brain has to work in so many ways. You're being stretched physically and mentally. You've got to focus on the steps and you have to communicate and interact with people."
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"Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that."
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"Reading takes solitude and it takes focus."
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"I'm not going to waste my energy looking into the eyes of someone like the guy who blew my legs off trying to find a way to forgive him for doing something that horrible when there are way more productive ways I could be spending my life. You've got to focus on moving on."
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