"Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find."

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Source : Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing

Ann Patchett

#Focused Quotes

“I've never tried to make a movie to pay an overhead. We're in a very creative business, and I want to make movies because I enjoy that movie or that material.”

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“The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.”
“Eighty percent of our revenues are from products that didnâ€™t exist 60 days ago. Is there any other company that would do that?”
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
“Football lost its excitement for me.”
“I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.”
“I do what feels natural, but I can't say I haven't thought about it..”
“Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which are genuinely of minor interest. Thus it is possible to imagine a depressed lover, while the idea of a depressed patriot seems frankly inconceivable.”

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