Quotes About Focus

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.

You just want to play. You don't think about the money, how many followers you've got on Instagram. You just want to make it. You don't understand the demands, how intense it is at times - the scrutiny you're going to get.

You have to decide what's important to you. For instance, myself, I mean, I lead a very, very straight-edge sort of lifestyle on the road.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

Guardiola knows that the little details that can make us better. He analyses the game instantly - that's his biggest strength, his best characteristic.

You can't afford to rest on your laurels at all, or you'll instantly be on the bench.

Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.

The biggest difference between L.A. and Edmonton was that instead of people looking at me I was looking at them.

So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

I can't turn my aggression off and I can't turn it on; it's just instilled in me and that's how I play.

I try not to overthink things. If you think too much, that's when the mistakes come in. Keep it basic is what I've been doing well - winning my headers and making sure I win my one-v-one battles. Often, your natural instinct tells you whether to hold or go.

There's no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.

I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and use it for many years.

We've always had a very strong focus on the instrumentation, and our approach to our individual instruments.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.

The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.