Quotes About Focus

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.

To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.

I had to forget a lot of 'Star Wars' when I was making 'Dune.' It wasn't hard, though.

I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

If you had a Starbucks that never sold coffee, you wouldn't keep the site open. It's not that we're abandoning sites, but we're saying, 'Let's go where there's HIV, focus our resources there.'

You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom.

I don't believe in stardom or in the number game. What I concentrate more is on my work and how I can improve my character.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Sometimes when you stare adversity in the face you've got to go back to those basic principles of football and do them right.

I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.

I've attempted tech-free days when I turn off the phone and stare at the iPad instead.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

Rock stars, like anyone else, have to show discipline and take consistent good actions.

There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'

If you look at the big picture, you start losing your focus on the little things.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

If you start focusing on the next job, then you're probably not going to do the one you have very well.

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.