Quotes About Focus

I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

To break the mark definitely showed me I'm on the right track.

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.

I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

In golf, you have to stay patient and calm. On the race track you can let loose, but in golf you can't and you must be calm.

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

You get around people who see us away from the track, and it's a pretty big contrast. You're still competitive, and you still want to win everything, but I think in the car, we're focused and passionate all the time. We get outside the car, and we're a lot more relaxed and easygoing, enjoying things away from racing.

I'll work thirteen hours at a time producing a new track. Not a lot of people understand that - not girlfriends, friends, family.

What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?

I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.

I try to list the top three things to get done every day, and I'll be lucky if I hit all three, but it's amazing what that does to keep you on track.

Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

Ultimately the clothing company is a large investment on my part, and I'm taking a huge gamble. But having a focus away from the track is good for you.

I am so focused on the fact that the conversation doesn't address any of the things I think are important. I think our political dialogue in America is distorted and completely off track.

I feel like I was born to ride the track.