Quotes About Focus

Keep breathing.

I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble.

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify, simplify.

What I do, I do very well, and what I don't do well, I don't do at all.

Football is blocking and tackling. Everything else is mythology.

I just take my three swings and go sit on the bench. I don't ever want to mess up my swing.

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with God.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.