Quotes About Focus

I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

My church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, puts Jesus Christ at the focal point. It's the focus of everything. What I really hope is that people of faith in this country can come together in this election to ensure we elect a president who's going to do what's required to protect this basic principle of our country.

The challenges are going to be there, but how I prepare is what matters. It is very important to work on all the things required.

Launching a dance calendar required so much hard work and decision making.

Action requires focus and priorities and these inherently require compromises and pragmatism.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That's one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.

With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.

There's not a lot of chefs in the kitchen and very few people are involved in 'Hot Ones.' There's no research team or anything like that.

Math research is more like a marathon.

I don't even have a computer in my office. If I had e-mail, I'd never take the time to read research or absorb information. I want to think about what I'm doing, and that takes time.

When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind.