Cancer, as is often said, tends to focus the mind.

癌症，正像人们经常说的那样，总会使人精神紧张。

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I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it.

我只是听从了我师父的教导，他告诉我要将思维专注于纯粹的“我”，并且安住于此。

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The richness of our thoughts, our memories and even our personalities hinges on our ability to focus the mind and sustain concentration.

我们的思想、记忆乃至人格的丰富性都基于我们集中注意力并且维持专心状态的能力。

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But there's also some differences that we need to keep in mind, and that will be the focus of a lot of the lecture today.

我们也有一个径向节点,但是这里也有一些区别，是我们需要记住的,那是今天报告的焦点。

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What the philosopher tries to do, then, so as to better focus on these ideal things, is to disregard the body, put it aside, separate his mind as much as possible from it.

所以 哲学家们,为了全神贯注于这些理想事物,就要忽略肉体,撇开肉体,尽可能地分离精神和肉体

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Maybe the mental image of golfing pols, like the prospect of a hanging, has a special power to focus the mind.

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There is nothing like a crisis or a catastrophe to focus the mind.

CNN: It takes a crisis to focus on the value of Davos

And positive things can come out of adversity when cuts focus the mind on how an organisation can do better, Romer believes.

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