Quotes About Focus

I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.

Speak to me about football; the rest doesn't interest me. The rest doesn't help me in my job.

I've always been very passionate about issues. Being speaker, you kind of have to park the positions on issues and focus more on the rules.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

Hard work speaks for itself.

Obviously, talent speaks for itself, so, yeah, you got to go in there, and you got to play well. You got to play your game, but that's kind of the easy part in some ways.

If I were in charge of the Olympics, I would probably try to put something for the javelin guy to aim at. Not just length, but see if you could spear something.

This season is my most special and most cherished. All my focus is on getting that championship back here.

I take my job seriously. It's a very special process, you have to be connected with what you are singing.

The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

There's no time in the NFL, especially as a specialist, to pat yourself on the back. It's a week-to-week, game-to-game, kick-to-kick kind of job.

For many people in the music conservatory world, the message was always, Focus! 'You can't do everything; you really need to specialize.' And especially at an early age, I ignored this advice.

I'd rather be a big fish in a specialized pond than a little, little fish in a more generalized big pond.

The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty.

I think it would be more beneficial to protection of species if we could focus our efforts rather than paint a broad-brush area that is so enormous that active management is very, very difficult.

There are few student species more nakedly ambitious, focused, and future-oriented than the average Harvard law student.

I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.