Quotes About Focus

My only objective is to train hard and hopefully get a chance to play, and take it with both hands.

I'm trying to be the best lightweight fighter in the world. That's my main objective. I just have to keep my head up, keep training and enjoy this awesome ride that I'm on.

My objective with men at 2nd and 3rd is to get one quality pitch to drive them in. If it's not available, I'm going to go to first base. I won't make any apologies about that.

When you are shooting action, there is a satisfying thing because your objectives are very clear.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

Our locker room is so positive. We are all focused on the same objectives, and that's equality for women.

Your objectives change throughout your career and with more experience you kind of use the energy for the good stuff and you don't burn energy for the wrong stuff.

When I turned 40, I noticed I couldn't read the label on the back of a jar of food - it turned to be the result of presbyopia where the lens of the eye loses its ability to focus on near objects due to age. So now I wear multifocal contact lenses - and they've been a real blessing.

When you are professional and working in a club like Everton, the obligation is to be motivated, to be focused.

For me, motivation is like obligation.

My only obligation as a professional is to be prepared and be as good as I can be at my position.

The basic idea of a hackathon is to erase all routine obligations for the day so that employees can clear a mental space for creativity.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

You know, like, real paying attention and real observation and deep thought and deep consideration can be a bit, you know, miserable-making.

Anything I do, from movies to politics, I ensure that I observe, learn and give it my all.

As an observer of markets - whenever everyone focuses on one thing - like Greece and Europe - maybe they miss issues that are far more important - such as a meaningful slowdown in India and China.

Cats do this thing with their faces where they're so still, but they have this almost magnetic connection to anything they're observing.

If you obsess about one thing, you're just going to miss the broader picture.

I don't obsess over mistakes, because they do happen, so I just keep working and training hard. I just keep helping the team, which is key.

I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you're making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.