Quotes About Focus

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

I think I've shown that I can get up the middle, create some separation, and catch the ball.

I started playing this game in the backyard, I started playing this game in middle school and going to go practice without any fans, without any sounds.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

Every day, I do training. Sometimes at midnight I train, sometimes 4:30 in the morning as well.

But I think in the midst of working, you can't get too crazy serious.

Sometimes we get so focused on the results that we miss doing it - we miss the adventure of being in the midst of something because we're looking too far ahead.

If I'm going to do something, I might as well go for it.

New York has a strong focus on the migration of immigrants, and there is a crime element there and even an underbelly, but Chicago is a much harder and more brazen city.

The first time I fought Mike Chandler, I was thinking about money way too much. I was thinking about the end of my contract. My focus was way off. I didn't believe in the people that were guiding me.

When I'm in the studio, I like to be in there by myself because if I'm in the mike room, and I look out and see people talking, or they're not nodding their head or rocking to the music, it makes me feel like it don't sound good, or I'll be scared to really open up vocally because I might mess up, and they might be in there laughing.

I knew from day one what I was going into with the Milan job.

I think about Milan from morning to night, and there is certainly no lack of effort and desire on my part.

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted.

The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.

Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.

A guy can do a stair-stepper for an hour or go out and run five miles, but there's a big difference between doing that and going out into the ring and being ready to go-go-go-go-go!

Milestones aren't what I think about much.

While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.

I listen to a lot of Drake and Meek Mill before games.

From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and walk through the entire day.

It's hard work to think away all those 200 people or 40 people, whatever the crew is, that are around behind the camera. To also think about, 'Whatever I'm doing now is going to be seen by a million people,' it doesn't really help my performance.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It's still the same emotions.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.