"Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead."
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"Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals."
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"The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse."
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"Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable."
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"When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing."
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"When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He's done... is doing... and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don't let yourself ever get used to it... stay amazed!"
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"Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself."
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"Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment."
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"Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation."
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"We have to have a special insight, or we'll put it in the 'too tough' basket. All of you have to look for a special area of competency and focus on that."
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"Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are."
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"if we focus on what's ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives"
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"Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want."
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"Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go."
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"Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same."
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"Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses."
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"If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you."
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"Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened."
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"You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve."
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"When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated focus," although I've yet to find out what term historians should use)."
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