Quotes About Focus

I started meditating.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

I started in music and that's my forte and that's what I've always done and where I'm heading.

When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

I train every day to be a starter.

From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.

I think people get hung up on starters and 11s, and that number kind of rings through a lot of media's heads.

I practice as if I'm one of the starters.

When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

It's not how you come out of the starting blocks.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

I just don't really like starting a job if I don't know where it finishes. I want to know where something begins and ends so that you can invest something in it.

Just like many great boxers before me, regardless of where they're from, they're not always starting out with the nicest stuff. You don't need the latest stuff to get where you're heading - all you need is focus and drive.

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.

I don't know how to explain it, but when you're working on something constantly, and you're digging in deep, things kind of fall in, and you grab them, and you're like, 'That one!' and 'That thing!' and it starts to build something right.

My physical preparation for a series starts at least 10, 15 days before it begins, but mentally around a month before I start visualising things as to which bowling attack I will be facing, the conditions I will encounter and other things.

I feel really good in the box when I get an AB in the first inning. I feel like it just starts the day the right way.

Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

I know when the racing starts everything will calm down and the legs will be there. It's in the days before you have to keep your mind occupied.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.

I'm the sort of person that starts digging a hole and doesn't stop until it's finished.