Quotes About Focus

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like.

Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.

The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

When you want to give up remember why you started.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt

Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

What's behind you doesn't matter.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Aint nuttin' but a peanut.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent