Quotes About Focus

Whenever you catch a ball, just see it all the way into the tuck.

We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We need to be spinning six plates, and doing it well. Otherwise plates tumble and break.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

You have to, as an individual, know how to tune that stage of your life that's in the past out.

People say all kinds of hurtful things, but I've learned to tune it out the best I can.

I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

The bigger the pressure, the sharper I am, the more in tune with my body I am, the better my tactics seem to be. A lot of people crumble under pressure; they do something crazy.

In order to make it in this league, period, you have to be able to tune out some things and believe in yourself and go play.

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

I tend to think about so many different things on a recording. I'll be trying to tune into what the drummer's doing, trying to keep everyone playing the groove and other things like making sure the piano's in a nice pocket.

The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.

Independents come back, usually right before an election. They tune out, and then they start refocusing.

When I'm totally in tune with myself, and I'm flowing, it don't matter who I'm fighting; that's just a problem for anybody.

My heart is drawn to the small, out-of-the-way things that I can't help but to give my focus and attention and care, 'cause they shut off what hijacks my brain and help to tune out what can cause me pain.

For some reason, I can really tune in in the majors, and I have no idea why. They really get my attention.

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

You've got to make sure you're listening to the people that are important to listen to. And then everything else, you kind of have to tune out and do your thing.

When I'm out there, it's not even me who is doing the acting and the wrestling and the moving. It is something that I feel like I see channels more than anything else. So, for me, I tune into the right frequency. I get turned on and we're ready for take off.

One lesson I learned with Pomplamoose is that there will always be haters. Part of achieving some level of success is learning to tune out the rage.

It drives my wife crazy because I can tune out anything. Whatever it is I'm focused on, I won't hear anything, I'm just focused on what I need to get done. It becomes a problem sometimes. I've been that way from as early as I can remember.

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.