Quotes About Focus

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.

I try to shy away from labels and focus on the issues.

I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

I'm not shy, but I have a job to do. I don't need the notoriety.

I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.

I don't have siblings, which is probably the biggest reason why my parents were able to give the attention to my career that they did.

I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.

Leaders don't look behind; they don't look to the side - they look ahead.

I never even think of the mental side of things because I never had any issues.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

Football is made up of several factors, such as the physical side, which is very important, and the mental side.

If you're playing against an aggressive side, you need to play an aggressive game.

As a quarterback, especially when I come off to the sideline, I am trying to get things corrected, trying to get things figured out and move on to the next series.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

I just know when I'm on the sideline, I can't expect somebody to push me out of bounds.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

I just got to be engaged on both sides of the floor.

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

I get sidetracked very easily.