Quotes About Focus

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

From the moment of my birth on 23 July 1976, I became involved f in an educational research project. Even before I came into the world, my parents had already decided: I would be a chess champion.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

Only thing that I'm guilty of is taking too many jump shots.

You ain't gotta jump too high to shoot the ball.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.

On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have to fully commit. If you don't, a lot of things can go wrong.

I know I'm always ready when I jump into the ring.

Whenever I jump into the car I always try to do my best.

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

Our goal is to play into late June and don't take the process for granted.

One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.

I am finally glad to see that the jury is looking at me.

So I've definitely had a crazy career, but I'm starting to put it together and starting to take my time and know that I can really do some damage if I just slow down just a little bit.

Back in the day, before I really started to work on defense, I would just take ground balls, whatever, a couple, and then I'd say, 'OK, now I'm going to go hit.' Now I spend just as much time on ground balls as I do on hitting.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

If I were Elizabeth Sloane, I wouldn't be wearing makeup. I'd just be focused on getting the job done.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

When I decide to become a mother I will just be that. That will be really important to me.

I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.

I think you need to figure out your balance. 'Cause if you think too much about that there's people around and - and how you're singing and looking and performing, I think that it won't be a good performance. Then, on the other hand, you can't just be in your own world.