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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
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"Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future."

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Kevin B. Rollins Business Executive
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"We all have many opportunities, but limited capacity to pursue them. Make choices, focus your time and energy, so that you can submit your share of masterpieces to the greater good."

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Herman Cain Businessman, Politician
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"The thing that differs me from a lot of other people running for the President of the United States is that I focus on the problem first. Then I focus on what the solution is."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own."

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Kieran Crowley Sports Commentator
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"Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"You can't do everything. You can't do health and forestry and agriculture. You've got to focus and do one or the other."

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"I say, look at the melons on that lass,” Ian exclaimed, his gaze now on the TV. “And hung like a stallion, he is.” “Focus, mate,” Spade muttered."

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Jeff Martin Musician
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"People who love our record love us even more when they hear us live?playing live is what it is all about and that is our main focus."

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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
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"I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people."

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John Romero Game Designer
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"It may be a lot more personally rewarding to focus on the marvelous new equipment, but the focus should be on customers - attracting them, courting them, rewarding them, understanding them and binding them to you."

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Jose James Musician, Singer
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"When I start working on a new album, I kind of stop listening to a lot of outside stuff just so I can kind of focus."

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths."

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come."

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Judd Nelson Actor
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"In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it."

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