Quotes About Focus

Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.

I just think about the fight and what can happen. In the ring, It's my time to shine in front of everyone.

I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.

If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

There's a time and place for everything, and my focus is music. So that's what I prefer to spend most of my time doing, and not talk about making music.

I spend most of my time looking at game film.

Really, those 60 minutes when I am on the field is my time to enjoy myself, and I don't have to worry about anything, play the game that I love.

I have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing.

Ironically, the more deliberate we are in our work - cranking through our inboxes, clearing our to-do lists - the more myopic we become.

I love working in the kitchen, but when that's the only thing you're doing, you have a very myopic view.

I'm only competing with myself.

I'm hands-on with everything. From music to a car to remodeling a house - anything. People don't know that stuff, though, 'cause I put all my focus into music and being mysterious a little bit.

Basketball can give us a kind of mystical awareness. Everything seems focused and in balance.

Let's nail it down, let's get it right.

When my name is called I'm going to go in there and give it everything I've got.

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

A correction is a great time to determine what are our high conviction names.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.

I think when you get to majors, there are definitely certain names and certain people that you've got to beat, and most of the time certain names and people pop up on the leaderboard. But that's the game, and that's what we're here for.

Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.

Anytime you look at someone in detail, you're putting the camera on that person. What I typically look for is one or two or three really strong characters who will hold the narrative throughout the work.

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.