Quotes About Focus

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You're focused on the story you intend to tell and then you have to have a peripheral net out to catch these accidents.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

I've been on swims where people have freaked out about sharks. You have to think about something else, otherwise it will absolutely paralyze you. I do math problems, anything.

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of it.

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

I got my agents right out of school, and I booked my first commercial right away. It was always enough to not quit and do something else.

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a goal of being the best on Earth in mixed martial arts and fighting. I wanted to build my mind into something good, not just of the world. I wanted to be different.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Even though the public may perceive me differently, I always feel like I'm learning something new, and I like seeing myself this way. It keeps me focused on doing things with the love and care that comes from knowing you can always improve. I always have that in my head.

It is always something special to be a standout. But I never really look at that stuff. I just go out and try to handle my business.

To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

As German players we have something special inside us, because of our football history. We know we have to win, it is what is expected, so we have a good focus.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Sometimes you have to park things you're not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.

Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.

Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.