Quotes About Focus

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

You can choose what to focus on, and therefore what to be. You can choose to be your in-breath and out-breath. You can choose to listen with your whole being to the sound of the rain or the wind, and in some way to be one with the rain or the wind. Listening to sounds in this way can be very joyful. When you are in touch with these refreshing and healing elements, you are being, and not thinking.

Whether or not one is alive depends on whether one is mindful.

mindfulness means reclaiming attention

I memorized every line in Michael Jordan's 'Come Fly with Me.'

I've done projects where I've read 25 books and did all kinds of journal and character work for hours.

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself.

I do not want to be a journeyman.

I really don't want to be a journeyman.

Music is where I'm still. It's where I'm focused. It's such a joy. I'd like to make it a big part of my life.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I have been guilty of running here, there and everywhere and not being enough of a goal threat. As a striker, you are judged on your goals.

I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.

I like to do one film at a time. But sometimes, when projects get delayed for reasons beyond my control, I juggle more than one.

Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy.

Juggling 'Rangrasiya' and 'Jhalak' at the same time was a big thing. It has made me headstrong.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella for several years and created a lot of juice and density and energy by that time so by the time I get ready to go, I just let 'er fling, you know.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

There are guys that you look at and you want to really bowl at them or bat against them, certain guys who really get your juices flowing.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.