Quotes About Focus

My first priority is health and I want to be spiritually and mentally healthy, so that when I commence my next project, I am fit to give in my 100 percent time and energy.

In spite of my lack of education, I didn't lack direction.

It depends on where you put the paint, not how much you splash on.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.

I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

Single matches, I feel, have always been the ones where I can shine more. Three-way, four-way, you have to split your attention with some other guys, and it can be totally great, but when you get into a battle royal with 20 or 30 other guys, it's just so different from what your agenda is when it's one on one competition.

At the end of the day, you drive your car, and that is what you focus on with yourself and your side of the garage, but of course it is always good to have a good relationship. You never want to have a negative battle or the team splitting up in any way.

The highlight of my day is figuring out where I'm going to order dinner from in Los Angeles. As horrible as everything is, it's the golden age of takeout. Restaurants are not splitting their focus between serving customers in-store and delivery and takeout.

To me grinding out a good at-bat is pretty much fighting. And it's not trying to do too much with pitches, just finding a way to spoil a good pitcher's pitches, really.

No praying, it spoils business.

My sophomore year at high school, I spent $300 I had earned working at After School Matters for my first studio session. For a 16-year-old to sacrifice that much money was pivotal. It spoke a lot about how serious I was.

Even to this day, I read things in real time, you know, I don't - like, as if it's being spoken. I can't skim stuff in ways that I know certain people can. I have to sort of hear it in my head to be able to read it.

It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.

Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

No man ever wetted clay and then left it as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.

If marriage isn't a first priority in your life, you're not married.

Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.