Quotes About Focus

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.

I went to the University of Maryland for a year and was considering maybe, you know, being a medical doctor but decided my other interest was maybe flying airplanes in the Navy and just kind of changed my mind and changed schools and changed majors and decided to focus a hundred percent on that.

I know it's near the end and when it's over I want to be able to say to myself - not anyone else - that I've given it everything. At least in the last part of my career.

I think the thing with our team is during the postseason, our best games that we've played during the postseason, we strung at-bats together. It's not necessarily going up there trying to hit a home run, but it's trying to put up a good at-bat for the next guy.

My focus is not necessarily about money as much as people think.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.

The job is so fantastic, you don't need a hobby. The hobby is going to work.

We need the right attitude and the right motivation - that can decide the match above everything else.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

School was very important. But I needed to watch basketball.

Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses.

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.

There's one downside in comparison to both Soyuz and SpaceX, is that when you go to those places - when I went to Russia, or when I went to California - you're sort of focused on what you're doing. Your family's not there. Your lawn isn't needing to be cut. You're just focusing on what you need to do.

Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

Putting a needle on a record is almost like you're making a commitment to listening to something.

One needs to be clear headed. I believe in all-round fitness.

Development has to start from the base; the kids need to be playing, and the institutions have to come forward. There needs to be focus on grassroots.

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

I'm not really seeing pressure as a negative.