Quotes About Focus

I never even think of playing soccer.

Having a family has helped a lot with my partner, my son. It helped me focus on soccer.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

When I was younger, soccer was my life. I always wanted to play.

As a soccer player you want to perform, whether it's in front of 72,000 or even 1,000. You always want to be your best because you never know who's watching.

A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.

When I am working, I know this is my work so I can be focused for three hours, four hours, or whatever, and then outside I am a person like you or the children playing soccer in the street.

If I was at home, I'd find myself checking email and looking at the Internet when I should be working. In the library, I can get an awful lot done in a couple of hours, but it can become quite sociable, which you have to watch out for. There are a lot of people you can pop out and have a coffee with.

I have a life of sacrifice. I don't have a normal social life.

Since I started playing in the Premier League, I haven't really got a social life.

The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

Entire books are being written about the distractions of social media. I don't believe media compel distraction, but I think it's clear that they afford it.

I shut down social media because I needed to shut out online distractions and engage with the people, issues, and work right in front of me.

For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a company as a super-organism.

They ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don't privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That's where the Democrats ought to be.

I would come to New York, work, and then get out of New York. I didn't go out to dinner with other people on the Management Committee. I didn't socialize. I didn't politick.

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

I think the power of messaging is saying something in as few words as possible, because I think we all essentially have ADD. It's not a clinically diagnosed state anymore; it's a socially imposed state.

My father, because he was an academic, he did not shy away from meeting with academics who focused on political science, sociology, he actively embrace that and he didn't shy away from meeting with lawyers.

I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it takes the energy out of my writing. When I begin to work, it's like a soda bottle that's been jostled before it's opened. There's a lot of pent up energy in there. I have to let it out slowly, carefully, so that I can turn it into a written work.

Once I'm in training camp, there's no beer, there's no soda, there's no bad food. There's no anything. It's eat, sleep and breathe training.

When I am shooting a film, then everything goes soft focus. My family also complains that I don't give them time.

I have never been able to play consistently with soft hands.

People sometimes have a false view of track and field, that it's kind of soft and kind of friendly. And guys aren't necessarily laughing and joking, but everyone's just friendly and 'ha ha, he he.' I just came in and just was like, 'Nah, I don't know what y'all talking about, but every single time I step on the line, I'm trying to win.'