Quotes About Focus

If I want something I do everything to get it.

I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.

I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do.

I haven't even thought about a world record. I just want to go out there and have fun. I think when you focus too much on the numbers, you don't see anything that's out there.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."

When I see that little white ball go up, I want to catch it, no matter what. If I have to knock myself silly doing it, so be it.

Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be.

Instead of running from what you don't want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

I always have a vision when I go in, I always know what I want to do.

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

Your primary purpose is to enable consciousness to flow into what you do. The secondary purpose is whatever you want to achieve through the doing.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.

How' is always more important that 'what.' See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.