Quotes About Focus

If the mind says the injury is nothing, it will mean nothing. If the mind says competitions are nothing, it will mean nothing.

I think whenever you have any kind of injury or challenge, you just have to deal with it the best you can. You have to decide what's important to you and focus on getting back to where you want to be. And enjoy where you are and what your goals and dreams are and just give it 100 percent.

No matter what the circumstances are in our business - travel, politics, injury - you got to be in the game. And to be in the game, you got to work hard, and you have to know your craft.

You have to play injury time like the 90 minutes.

You need a certain amount of inner aggression, a bit of anger about you and the others in order to give your maximum.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

We have the capacity for about 1.6 human conversations, so if you're listening to one conversation particularly, you're only left with 0.6 for your inner voice that helps you write.

I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.

You've got to try to close every inning out, take it one inning at a time, one batter at a time.

If you bowl well early in the innings, it is also important to finish well.

If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest in the arts. I'm always interested in finding ways to innovate... It's a blend; it's not a point focus.

We built TransferWise focused on customer innovation. That means we build our product based first and foremost on our customers.

Innovators are developing the ideas and bringing them to life in amazing new applications. All we, as an industry, need to do now is focus on standardizing the interfaces to ensure interoperability - and stand out of the way.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

I think when you start talking about selling a company or a company wants to buy you, then you start thinking about how much money you're going to have. That's insidious because it saps your will to continue.

You cannot be insightful if you're deluged with information.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.