Quotes About Focus

I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

I won't speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I've seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you're spending time and focus on somebody else's business instead of your own.

Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

I make sure that I'm not focused on other things when I'm spending time with my children.

Spending time chasing the puck around your own end isn't really a good recipe for success.

If I spent my career responding to critics, I'd never be where I'm at right now.

I consider myself normal. I've spent 20 years in the pool. I consider that something that's normal.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

There has to be something about your business that gets you excited. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't have spent your precious - irreplaceable - time on it.

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

For me, I'm not Spielberg. I can't edit while filming another film.

Spielberg shoots with one camera. The Coens, and I think this is right, maybe discarded one shot on 'No Country for Old Men.' That's something you want to aspire to, because nothing's out of place. Everything's necessary.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

My priority is my son and my husband, and I have a lot of spinning plates, so I try to make sure they're not one of them.

The chance of messing up and falling significantly increases when you're flipping through the air three times while spinning and trying to grab your skis.

True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

It is very important to set yourself goals and work on them. It lifts your spirits and helps you focus.

The goal was not only to teach people the Bible and minister to people personally and spiritually, but also to build a church to be community focused.

For me, preparation is all about the physical, the mental and most importantly, the spiritual. If I'm not spiritually in the right place, I'm a mess.