Quotes About Focus

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.

I know how many days in which I have just answered e-mail, had three phone calls and a two hour lunch. Poof, gone. They are not infrequent.

Our phones have created what I like to call SADD - Social Attention Deficit Disorder.

But every so often we'll get to this place where everyone in the room is fully focused on what's happening. You see it happens in sports sometimes, when there's a really important moment. It's a great thing when you can get to those places, when you look up you don't see a bunch of phones out.

I must beware of the photo, get what I can of it and then go.

I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that.

As a photographer, I don't really have a view of the world in general. Someone taking pictures for 'National Geographic' might. Each of us works to our full capacity when we're in the midst of a shoot. Each of us finds our own level of intensity, and that's the fun of it.

I was a photographer. That's how I began my career, behind the camera.

The camera photographs what's there.

What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

I am a huge obsessor with photography.

I want to really study and learn about fashion, and kind of discipline for a few years, really start to study, and then probably start my photography career. I feel like that'd be really good for me - to disappear for a few years.

I gravitated toward photography. That's what I really did well.

There are so many causes that you care about, but one can't change or take on the world, so one has to really focus on where you feel you can - to use a very overworked phrase - truly try to do something to make a difference.

I'm trying to make sure that I get to my 0-2, 1-2 counts. That's really how I would rather phrase it: I'm trying to make sure that I can drive the count into my favor.

Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.

I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.

But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it's great.

I never had a good physical base.

I think you should be able to imagine things in a different way. And, you have to dedicate both your physical and mental abilities to that ambition to accomplish it.