Quotes About Focus

I probably did pack a lifetime's work into the 1980s.

When you aren't able to do what makes you dominant, what separates you from the pack, it can throw your mind off.

It is not like if one film of mine doesn't work then I am going to pack my bags. It all depends on how much determination I have to want something.

You never really get a chance to sit back and look at where you are or what you've done. If you stop working, you're gonna get overtaken quickly. You can't really take your foot off the gas - until you decide to pack it in.

Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it's all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.

I've made a kind of pact with myself where I said, It doesn't matter what it is as long as I'm acting.

Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

The best players try to not slow down when they put the pads on.

If we're losing, I probably won't be talking as much. I'll probably be more talking to my pads.

For every athlete, the roar of the crowd goes away, and we have to learn how to turn the page.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

What is it about the blank page that makes me want to hurl myself into a game of solitaire? I ask myself these kinds of questions while I'm playing solitaire.

There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out.

Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will feel as though it is writing itself.

When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.

Anyone can sit down and write two pages of a novel, then forget about it, and a week later write five pages of a screenplay, then forget about it, and a week later start another novel... etc, etc.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.

My head works a little faster than people around me sometimes and it can be quite painful. It was a problem for me in school because I couldn't sit down long enough. I couldn't concentrate. So I didn't go to classes very much.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.