Quotes About Focus

The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

It's not brain surgery. I focus on getting the costumes right, getting the body language. I do what I can with the makeup.

You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

I don't like the idea of pre-meditated music. Things like free-styling, the element of surprise - I think people need to scale back and re-focus on making moments again.

It doesn't matter to me if it has a surprise ending or not. I usually go for the material or the project.

It was a big surprise for me when they asked me to bat at three. That is a big thing. I was focussed on playing the situation. You need to be open anyway if you are playing for a team like India.

What would surprise people about working with LeBron is he's really into the things that he's into. And I think people don't understand that. They just think he's a basketball player, he's super busy. But he actually pays attention.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going.

You're obviously conscious of being brash or big-headed but I always knew I was going to be a footballer when I was seven or eight. I didn't just think I wanted to be one, I knew I was going to be one. Nothing ever surprised me really.

I think if we can get people focused to do what we need to do to keep our kids from being stuck with this debt that they didn't accrue, you might be surprised at how far we can move this conversation.

If you put the time in and you do your work and you eliminate the surprises, then you give yourself the best shot.

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.

Rugby has surprisingly helped me a lot as an astronaut and when I'm training in the space suit.

I have these surreal moments where I'm like, 'I'm pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal's baby' and 'I'm telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.' But you're acting, so the focus is on the work.

Jesus often reminds his followers and friends to discern the difference between what matters and what doesn't; he urges a stripped-down, unencumbered life. And here, he recommends this type of life as a way of staying ready, being wide awake and prepared for what God brings next.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

It's not his step, it's the back of his lap he ought to watch, I said.