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«From this experience I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.»
Author: Arthur Golden
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«Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.»
Author: Claude Monet
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analyzing, appropriately, automatically, Caught in The Act, deathbed, deathbeds, focusing, graded, grades, imposing, motionless, obsession, succession, temples, torment
«Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.»
Author: Dean Koontz
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ambitions, extreme, focused, focusing, forgetting, intensely, make love, Present and the Past, pretenses, strips
«I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.»
«One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity...»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
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aspect, bothered, creativity, focusing, granted, motivation, normally, process, source, taken, taken for granted, willingness
«Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.»
«Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.»
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