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Joseph Prince Pastor
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"Anyone who doesn't focus on Jesus Christ and His finished work has neither the wisdom of God nor the power of God."

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"What you focus on, you create. So focus your attention consciously, and do not allow your attention to stray to results that you aren't interested in manifesting. Because you can, and will, create more of what you are focusing on."

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"Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That's really what I'm called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing."

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Thomas A. Edison Inventor
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"As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me."

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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
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"Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!"

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Stan Smith Tennis Player
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"When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can."

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
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"I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine them. We reexperience emotions we felt during the painful events we experienced because we are recalling them in as much detail as we can."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just."

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Daisaku Ikeda Buddhist Leader, Author
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"Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized."

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David Allen Author
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"You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do."

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Colin Wilson Author, Philosopher
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"When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view"

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there"

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Laura Miller Author
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"In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall."

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