Quotes About Focus

Yoga helps one slow down the mind and focus better.

For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I've been able to consistently do over the years. I think it's because it also is sort of a mental exercise and calms you and refocuses you. So I find that that's great, and sometimes someone will drag me to a spin class or on a hike.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

Yoga only works one way.

Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

Yoga helps me with basketball, but it helps me outside of it more than anything.

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

Yoga changed my life. I go between 4 and 6 times a week. It's incredibly grounding and an intense level of focus.

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.

On game days, I do yoga as just a really short routine. It's more to warm up and to calm down in the morning.

I love the paddle board. It's just a really good way to recenter. Being on the water is really peaceful, and you have to focus on your balance and holding yourself up. Doing a little bit of yoga under the sun on the water is really, really magical.

I never miss yoga before a show.

I tried doing yoga to see if it would make me a more patient person, but I lost interest after about six minutes.

In yoga, you need to focus on staying in the moment in a sometimes uncomfortably hot room. That focus and alertness help when I'm riding waves.

Breathing techniques in yoga help me keep my mind cool and stable.

I do yoga. I meditate, and when I'm not climbing, I focus on breathing deeply all day long.

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

I have a very focused agenda. And I hold myself to the highest standards. I judge myself more harshly than any voter, or any New Yorker, will.

If you want to bowl a yorker, you have to land it; if you want to bowl a bouncer you have to be on the money.