Quotes About Focus

Never underestimate the importance of preparation for any single poker session or tournament.

The challenge is always around culture. I think that's often underestimated because people focus on the substance and the practical; soft steps go missing.

You can never make the mistake of underestimating an opponent, especially in the Champions League.

In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.

I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.

The market is often stupid, but you can't focus on that. Focus on the underlying value of dividends and earnings.

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

When someone's portraying something they're not to get underneath my skin, I'm just going to funnel that into a great strategy, and I'm going to try to get him out of there quick.

It gets to the point where, by the time you're underneath the arena lights and you're staring at your opponent, that's the best time. That's the best feeling in the world, because all the other stuff goes away.

I relish pitching underneath pressure.

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

That is what shooting is. There is no secret sauce, man. You've got to find mechanics that you can make the same every time, and you've got to do it over and over again, and you can't just shoot for rhythm. You've got to understand what you are doing. You have to focus on those details every day.

I think purpose is the most important thing because once you understand that, everything else becomes easy.

Top Gear,' for entirely understandable reasons, started to focus on its international status because it was selling so well in international territories.

If you're a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you're an artist where maybe the focus is really the talent and the different things you bring to the game, I believe it's more understandable.

You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.

Meditation demands an astonishingly alert mind; it is the understanding of the totality of life in which every form of fragmentation has ceased.

My understanding of the world is all through the prism of martial arts. It's affected every aspect of my life.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

I like Mourinho's sessions: very dynamic, always with the ball. There are no really long sessions or talks. He understands what a footballer needs: twenty minutes, that's it. No time to lose concentration.

I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day.

My wife understands it's a business and I'm working for her and our son. But I never worry about it during a training camp because the focus is my opponent and only him.