Quotes About Focus

Negative emotions, such as anger and fear, narrow our focus, while positive emotion expands the range of our thoughts and creates the urge to play and experiment.

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

He was standing very still with his arms folded, staring with poached egg eyes.

Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether.

811. Focus on the here and now, forget yesterday's behavior, and don't predict tomorrow's. Every day with ADHD is different from the next.

And I desperately wanted to return to the world! I didn't want to waste any more time. I was determined, so determined, not to waste time ever again.

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Sometimes on a soap, it can become about all this other stuff - the party circuit, reality shows - but I gravitated towards people who kept it all about the work.

If you do TV, sign a proper daily soap, then you won't be able to do anything.

To be in a soap you have to be someone who is prepared to be at the grindstone, because it's all hands on deck.

I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.

I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.

When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

If there is one certainty in soccer, it is this: The quickest road to becoming a winning soccer team is to have a great goalkeeper.

In training when I'm receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it's just soccer.

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school.

Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer's always my priority.

The first time I won a medal in the all-around competition is when I realized that's what I wanted to do pretty much for the rest of my life. Even though I was still doing baseball and soccer at the time, I think I just found that that was more my passion, where I saw a lot more success... I was probably eight or nine years old.

I wanted to be a soccer player.