Quotes About Focus

Even in the early stages of my career I've had to dance with principal dancers. I could have easily freaked out and got nervous, but I think that helped when it came to trying to forget I was doing a scene with Judi Dench.

Everyone becomes a lot more focused when you come towards the critical stages of the season.

I'm very comfortable knowing how hard I have worked in the later stages of my career.

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it's flight time. I'm just floatin' on that stage.

Running backwards down the stairs, holding the camera, trying to focus on what's in front of you is difficult, and you need to be able to protect the camera.

Obviously understand what's at stake, and keep going. You just have to keep going, keep playing.

When you play a semi-final, it is impossible to be tired. You know how much is at stake.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

We try each and every week to win. We know what's at stake, but every coach has that mindset, so it's not easy.

You don't have time to think about things that aren't as important as football and the points that are at stake in the games that we have to win and do well in.

Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.

Our keeper, Karen Bardsley, stakes out any penalty, any free-kick, any corner. KB knows the detail of how the person will take it.

Regardless of what the stakes are, our attitude and our mindset doesn't change.

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Generally, I like to write in the morning before all the dust of dreams has blown away. Beforehand, I read two papers, cook my breakfast and then settle down in front of the word processor, usually by 8 A.M. I'll write, and then check e-mail or voicemail when things stall.

We all dream about winning the Premier League. We all set our stall out to qualify and we worry about positions afterwards.

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

I don't ever leave my garage stall during practice. I don't want to know what other people are doing. I don't look at the scoreboard.

Well, head space, mental stamina, all that stuff, like it boils down to getting it done.

No doubt about it, in order to win the WSOP Main Event, plenty of stamina is required.