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"And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner."
"Focus on things that are small enough to change, but big enough to matter"
"If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one."
"The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company."
"I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling."
"Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important."
"I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!"
"You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs."
"What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny."
"For me, fasting has just been a huge part of everything God has done in my life, Fasting means I am putting everything on hold, and I am spending the time with God. It brings everything in focus, and I become eternity-minded."
". . . everything in life responds to the song of the heart."
"When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook."
"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
"You need to realise that you must have something to aim for, something to drive you."
"Man or woman, you have to have the mental characteristics, the ability to concentrate, the focus, the flexibility, where women have the advantage, and strength-to-weight ratio. It does depend on the raw power."
"We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus"
"Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere."
"What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions."
"Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers."
"You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy."
