"Don't worry about what you can't do; focus instead on what you can do... and then do it."
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"When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping."
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"A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted."
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"My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love."
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"When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion."
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"Often, our most rewarding dreams are staring us right in the face, but for some reason we focus on how hard things are, how we are scared of the unknown and what would happen if we failed."
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"I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value."
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"Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert."
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"Each minute of life should be a divine quest."
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"If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect."
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"It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy."
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"I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus."
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"Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance."
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"Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity."
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"When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity."
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"We don't have to feel negative about weeds. They're a part of life. We need to see them, acknowledge them, focus on the solution, and immediately do whatever it takes to eliminate their influence from our lives."
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"No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out."
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"Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share."
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"The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus."
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"Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it."
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