"Focus on the solution, not on the problem."
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"Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus."
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"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."
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"Wherever the music comes from, if there is no focus behind it then it's just noise"
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"Focus on your customers and lead your people as though their lives depend on your success."
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"Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design."
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"Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay."
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"Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive."
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"One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be"
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"If you don't make a conscious effort to control your focus-and decide in advance which things you're going to focus on-you'll be so pulled by the demands of the world that you will soon find yourself living in reaction rather than living a life plan you've designed for yourself."
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
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"If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development."
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"Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus."
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"You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races."
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"If you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems, they'll grow bigger and stronger. Is that what you want? Of course not!Instead, focus on your goals. Start your day with them at the front of your mind, and use notes to recall them strategically throughout your day."
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"Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed."
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"My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh."
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"Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time."
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"The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the traditional focus of modern education - into the reaches of possibility, invention and genius."
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"Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time."
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