Quotes About Focus

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

If you pick up that information, the first metre or two, the ball coming out of the hand, you can analyse what's coming.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

My job is to just focus on basketball and you know, I don't really get a chance to really pick and choose who I play with.

You can't pick and choose when you are going to be at your best.

I never picked an opponent.

Some basic things I have picked up from Dad is how to interpret my character correctly, use the camera to my advantage and how not to hurry up with work.

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.

Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.

One of the most interesting things that I'm seeing of the Trump picks is such a heavy business and financial focus. I can't help but feel like this is going to throw a lot of policy weight and details back to Congress, because these are not people who have a lot of experience drafting legislation.

Only great players can have two shots for one ball, like Tendulkar does, and a big reason is that he picks the ball very early.

If you're playing a shot and your peripheral vision picks up a player moving as you play the shot, if your vision goes from the object ball to what they're doing, you can miss the shot by several inches.

I don't want to be picky and say that I only want to do films.

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.

Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Chip is the risk-taker. He's all about the big picture but with a get-it-done attitude, and sometimes I'd rather play it safe and really focus my energy on the details.

In the person with autism, the brain may already be seeing the part and be less distracted by the whole, and in the person without autism the brain may have to set aside its picture of the whole to analyze the detail.

Only the picture matters. It's what goes on the screen that counts.

When we founded Facebook, we put a lot of hours into it and worked hard every day. 'The Social Network' painted this picture that we were partying all the time, when really we only attended 2 or 3 parties during Facebook's first year.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

It is not important to make many pictures but that I have one picture right.