Quotes About Focus

What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.

I have run across characters in my political career that have that singular focus of being someone, being in a position of power.

Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Both Dhoni and me, we are so interested in what we are doing right now that we don't sit and think about future. This thing commands your attention because you love it so much. Your experience is not distorted by your fear or desire to attain something.

I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.

People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.

There are days when I'll write for 15 minutes and have to give up and move around, and I'll write another paragraph and give up again. On other days I get intensely - focused on the process, sit down at 8 A.M. and won't get up until 8 P.M.

I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

I make sure to sit down for at least five minutes a day to just capture whatever passes through my mind.

If one app or news site or friend gets your attention, that means something or someone else loses it. It comes out of our sleep, our time with family or our reflective time with ourselves.

Robust activity on one site is so much better than halfhearted activity on multiple sites.

You know, I don't really judge any other sites. We really focus on our own.

When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.