Quotes About Focus

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

It doesn't really matter the score or the situation: I got a job to do.

It's the same thing as a competitor with anything whether it be a play, an injury, a distraction. You just put it behind you, you take the situation for what it is and you control what you control and the people that do that the best are usually the more successful team, person, individual, what have you.

You can practice against each other, but there's something about a game situation.

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

I feel I handle the pressure situations well, and that's why I want to be there at the end.

The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don't take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

In certain situations, you have to be able to be more conscious of ball security than you do in the open field.

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

If I'm really under pressure to get work done, I can adapt to most situations, but I prefer to be at home, in a comfortable chair, with as few distractions as possible.

I've recorded 25 to 30 songs in a single night, singing five or six takes of each song. I'm very disciplined.

The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.

First six overs are important because if you put runs on board, it will take the pressure off the other batsmen.

I train for six days in a week for eight to ten hours of practice per day.

When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.

Every fight is won in the gym. The hard part of our job is getting in the gym every day, six days a week.

I'm always in the gym, six hours a day. I'm in the gym all the time, six days a week. It's one of the reason why my training camps are a little bit shorter. My training camp is five weeks long because I only need four weeks to get into fighting shape.

I work on one book at a time. And yes, I am immersed. Six days a week for four to six hours a day. In between books, I stop writing for as much as two to three months, but during that time, I do research and think, plot and plan the book.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

My job is to make the case that I'll do the best job possible representing the people of Georgia's Sixth District, and what they want is representation that's focused on them and not this national partisan political circus.

If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that.