Quotes About Focus

Acting is just part of my life. It is not my life. Whatever time I invest in acting I give my 100 per cent. But there are other things which are also important and I like to give equal attention to them.

For me, whatever I do, I believe, I must do it seriously and invest a lot of time to understand and learn.

I am completely invested in my music - committed to it full time.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

I was filled with angst all the time, but when it came down to it, I dove into what was in front of me, and I always did my best. I invested 100 percent. And that's what saved me.

This country is a place that you've got to stay invested in.

Professional footballers get up, train, play games, and that's it. They don't worry if the club gets fined. They don't investigate the intricacies of the business.

The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots.

When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.

It's critical to have a disciplined investing approach and stick with it.

We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.

The main thing during a crisis is discipline, to begin investing in time again after the crisis subsides.

You can't attain anything without investing time.

Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

Human Needs Project is really about how to come up with a different approach to helping, really focusing on the dignity of people living in communities you are not a part of, and how to approach these communities with help, but more look at it as an investment and a collaboration with these communities rather than, 'Here comes the white savior!'

I'm not looking for hobbies, I'm looking for investments.

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

Your mind and soul must be completely involved in your work all the time. This is how you will achieve success.

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

I don't have an iPhone or anything. There's no TV. It's so easy to become distracted.

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.