Quotes About Focus

Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.

In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

You never want to give someone like me free time.

I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

I want to make a good, solid kung fu movie.

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.

I never wanted to let go of the opportunity, and so I hit upon 'VIP 2'.

My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

When I was 15 and had the light bulb moment I wanted to be an actor, it was my sole focus and goal, and I went after it with determination.

I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.

When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing.

I wanted to study to be a petroleum engineer and get my engineering degree and fight in the UFC at the same time. But unfortunately, to be the best I can be at the UFC, I needed all focus to be there, and more focus, also.

I learnt since I was a child growing up in a small village in the Czech Republic that I had to be like that to compete, to be the best and then to compete against the best. There has not been a second, a minute, an hour, a day that I have missed because I always wanted to improve.

With a fast pace world and wanting to reach and accomplish goals sometimes we neglect to pause and just enjoy the moment.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.