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«When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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content, focus, images, inadequate, photographed, photographing, photographs, unclear
«That thing, that moment, when you kiss someone and everything around becomes hazy and the only thing in focus is you and this person and you realize that that person is the only person that you're supposed to kiss for the rest of your life, and for one moment you get this amazing gift and you want to laugh and you want to cry because you feel so lucky that you found it and so scared that that it will go away all at the same time.»
Author: Drew Barrymore
(Actress)
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«Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like...Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps / if we trust it to do so. Naturally, not all hunches are useful. But then you only need a single good idea to solve a problem.»
Author: Marsha Sinetar
| Keywords:
but then, circumstantial, denying, escape, feel like, focus, generate, generating, good idea, hunch, hunched, hunches, hunching, intentionally, inventively, meant, naturally, solutions, solve, traps, useful
«We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.»
«One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.»
Author: Anthony Robbins
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achieve, concentrate, concentrates, dabble, dabbled, dabbling, deciding, direct, Directed By, few, focus, focuses, in focus, in particular, master, One Power, out of focus, particular, Particulars, truly
«The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
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«To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.»
Author: Stephen R. Covey
| Keywords:
cram, crammed, cramming, crams, day in and day out, focus, focus on, get by, graded, grades, grade school, grading, mastery, subjects, technique, The Technique, the Techniques