Quotes About Focus

Now I'm fast and under control. I can just play, seeing the game slower now.

High performance people take action quickly and change their mind slowly!

Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

Keep your world small, keep your focus on the thing right in front of you and slowly widen out that world-view.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

Before filming I'll be constantly thinking about my role at the back of my mind and slowly build up the intensity until I can explode on set. There is a very fine line between not quite getting there, and getting that bit too intense.

Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.

When I write, I feel like an optometrist, constantly flipping between lenses and asking, 'Is this better? Is this?' Slowly, the work comes into focus.

I read slowly, I watch movies slowly, because I retain everything.

High jump is such a mental thing. It's you against the bar. It's something that a lot of people struggle with, and people experience slumps and plateaus because of it.

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

You won't get out of a slump if you don't shoot.

Sly always had us rehearsing, and he always had something planned out that he wanted us to do. So it wasn't ever like, 'Well what should we work on?' It was never that. He always had the plan, 'This is what we're going to do today, shoop shoop shoop shoop,' and everybody's minds were in the same direction.

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

I always think about the small details because I need to improve more and more.

What would you rather do? Fix a small problem well or answer a small problem well or flail around at the big ones and pay a lot of lip service?

In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.

Boxing is a part of my life but it's only a small part.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

I don't like to do small things. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to really make an impact.

I put little goals in place every day, and I think if you can kind of keep to the small things it's easier to capture the big picture at the end.

I try to work on the small things.