Quotes About Focus

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

There was a hole in Washington fiction, I felt, when I started out. Most D.C. novels were about politics or the federal city or people who lived in Georgetown or Chevy Chase - it was definitely a very narrow focus.

I want to show my fans what happens when you are focused and what God will do for you if you are walking the narrow path.

When it comes to talking about beating certain teams, we can be narrow-minded when we need to look at the bigger picture.

I think people - especially folks who haven't seen a lot of NASCAR - they get this idea that we're just going around in circles. And that's so far from the truth. You're running as hard as you can to get all you can every lap.

There is nothing else to do in Nashville except for write songs.

I'm a nasty human being when I step into that cage, but before that I could care less.

When you're there and actually facing Natalie Dormer, it seems to go on for years.

Natalie Portman never looks back, ever. Ever!

I learned 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' the national anthem. I always wanted to play it before the Bulls game, but I always thought, like, Coach would be like, 'You're not focused on the game!' So I never really asked.

David Cameron should be focusing on what is in Britain's national interest and our place in the world, not on internal party politics.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

If you don't concentrate during a national team match you can just as easily get injured, so I want to make sure I can focus.

Playing for the national team, you are aware that a whole country wants you to succeed, but you mustn't get side-tracked.

It's hard to think about the national team when you are with your club side and so invested in your team, your individual self and trying to win a play-off series.

If you come from the Internet, as I do - I think of it as sort of my native country - there's a lot of great things happening on the Internet, but one of the things, one of the feelings you just can't escape is the sense that it's really hard to keep people's attention.

I'm at a point in my life where I'm not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA.

It is not my role to go out and do the power hitting. My job is to play my natural game.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

I don't think anything comes naturally; you just have to work very hard.

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

Talking to other people while you're cooking, it doesn't come naturally.

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice.