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focus ego attention
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. Alan Watts
focus listening theatre
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent. Alan Rickman
focus-and-concentration long calm
As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well. Al Oerter
focus good-things happens
Good things happen when you narrow your focus Al Ries
focus albums guests
Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it. Akon
focus violence murder
The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable. Chris Christie
focus helping strategy
The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming. Chris Albrecht
focus mind calm
Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content. Chin-Ning Chu
focus effort luck
To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off. David Rusenko
listening
Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say. Charles Stanley
listening wish newspapers
No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. Charles Spurgeon
listening actors want
All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. Alan Rickman
listening important actors
When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it. Alan Alda
listeners millions
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners. David Sedaris
listening i-can knows
I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know. Buddy Guy
listening gold example
The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening. Campbell Newman
listen
Why should you listen to any of us? Ben Mitchell
listening pay distraction
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person. Denis Waitley
music music-is
I started making music because I could. Alanis Morissette
music i-am-what-i-am
I am what I am Are you what you are or What? Alanis Morissette
music song writing
Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage. Alanis Morissette
music rest-of-your-life helping
Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. Alanis Morissette
music effort blues-music
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues. Al Jarreau
music
Once you discover that you can, then you must. Al Jarreau
musical grew theater
I grew up doing musical theater. Chris Colfer
musical great-music periods
I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period. Chiwetel Ejiofor
music order suffering
Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet. Chico Hamilton
peace stars two
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. Charles Caleb Colton
peace spring reflection
Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light. Charles Caleb Colton
peace healing feelings
A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there Alanis Morissette
peace war principles
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after. Alan Watts
peace war men
It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace. Alan Moore
peaceful election states
I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures. Akhmad Kadyrov
peace-with-god saving scripture
God's redemptive revelation in Scripture is necessary to saving faith and peace with God. Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
peace resume soon talks tracks
We want the peace talks to resume on all tracks as soon as possible, Robin Cook
peace mind calling
Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing. Chip Conley
quiet hours peace-and-quiet
But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour. Bryan Ferry
quiet-voice people tree
Censorship is saying: 'I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.' But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper. Ai Weiwei
quiet introvert minimalist
I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least. Bob Newhart
quiet knows
You cannot be quiet about things that you know. Ed Begley, Jr.
quiet-people thinking rude
Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them. Dee Dee Ramone
quiet quiet-life
When it is possible, I choose to have a quiet life. Diego Della Valle
quiet enough virtuous
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
quiet silent
There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me. Agnetha Faltskog
quiet habit trumpets
It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes. Charlie Munger
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish. Charles Dickens
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think. Charles Caleb Colton
thinking two glory
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists. Charles Caleb Colton
thinking enemy frankness
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him. Charles Caleb Colton
thinking people remember
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember. Charles Caleb Colton
thinking daring finished
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
thinking mind wish
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it. Charles Dickens
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death." Charles Dickens
thinking words-of-wisdom secret
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one? Charles Dickens
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Charles Caleb Colton
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Charles Caleb Colton
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Charles Caleb Colton
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. Charles Caleb Colton
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Charles Caleb Colton
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. Charles Caleb Colton
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. Alan Watts
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave. Dave Chappelle