Quotes About Focus

My mindset is I don't need to worry about the noise. I got my team and my brothers with me.

The outside noise is something I try not to listen to.

I'm very good at blocking out noise.

You have to do a good job controlling the things you can control for performance and not get distracted by all the noise.

I was just focused on winning games for the Magic. I was just trying to play at a very high level, just trying to block out all the noise. I had some good games.

When you let outside noise into your head, you start thinking or believing whatever the hell you read or see.

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room. I try to keep the noise in front of me.

When you're focused, you don't hear the crowd noises, you only hear what you need to hear.

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I'm the kind of writer that, once I get into writing mode in my brain, I'm non-stop.

On 'Master of None,' the majority of the episodes were just one story, and that was by design because we really wanted to focus in on the character of Dev and get the audience in his head.

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction and nonfiction I've written.

I consider myself a writer, foremost - a nonfiction writer.

Imagine maintaining 70 brands in a digital world - it is a nonsense. It is better to focus on a fewer, more distinct brands.

I don't think I would deliver the best work if I would do several projects at the same time. So it's one at a time, but I work a lot. I work nonstop actually, but that's what I like.

I have been working since I was 14, nonstop.

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.