Quotes About Focus

I'm all for one month of going really hard and eating really healthy and boxing every day if you're doing it for, like, one job.

I take any project on a month or two at a time. Meaning, I don't think too far ahead.

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.

I'm only at home for, like, a month when I'm doing an album - at the most.

If you ask me what is going to happen in a month or a year, I can't tell you. We're focused on the present.

I listen to music to try and focus or concentrate on emotional characters, which is quite common among actors. It might seem cheesy, but I particularly listen to Coldplay because I'm moved by their lyrics. But any music can help depending on the character and their mood.

I watch the goals to get me in the mood and to give myself a vision of how I want the game to go.

I will do whatever I can to become the character. I have no right to distract the audience from the mood of the film.

I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.

I am constantly trying to improve my playing and hope to get more and more mental strength. I think these are two of the success keys.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.

For me, I do better in Grand Slams. I like when there's more people watching.

I've tried to stick with the same people from when my career started to today. The more people you add around you, the more distractions you have, and that's the last thing I need.

The minute you have a little bit of success, you think: 'I can do more and I can reach more people.' So as I've achieved more, I've become way more focused.

When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.

I love driving the sled more than anything.

I'm a defender and that's what I will always look to do first. If you do that right then the other things will be easier, but my job is to defend and that's what I'll focus on more than anything.

I want to better myself as an actor, more than anything else.

My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.

Morning is when I do all my best work.

I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop our older two kids at school then write for a few hours.

I work in the mornings almost exclusively.