Quotes About Focus

I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

The fit is my main focus, I want the fit to be great and that's the focal point for me.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

I'm the type of guy who wants to make every play.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

I'm not going to be a guy who does dances after he strikes somebody out. I'm not like that. I just want to secure a win. That's my job.

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

I don't care much about my personal record. I just want to be able to pitch in the playoffs.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

I have a kind of remarkable ability to, for want of a better phrase, get what I want. I kind of project. I guess it's called dreaming.

I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

I feel like if I do my homework practice-wise, by the time I get to the studio I can put everything exactly where I want it to be right away.

People always want to pin yesterday's news on you, as opposed to asking you what you're going to do for the future, what you're doing today.

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

Maybe this is extremely selfish of me, but I do things that I want to make and I don't really care about anyone else when I'm thinking about an idea.