Quotes About Focus

How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

There's nothing wrong with knowing what you want and going after it.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

To mobilize yourself, decide what you want, determine what will get you what you want, then act - do what will get you what you want most to achieve.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

It's hard because you want to be able to just, okay, focus your energy on trying to win the match, but you need to then have tactics as to how you're going to deal with how you're feeling.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve.

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.

You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.

Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing

I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.