Quotes About Focus

I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

The Imp of the Perverse will try to torment you with thoughts of whatever it is you consider to be the most inappropriate or awful thing that you could do. To illustrate this point, each of my patients whose thoughts are summarized below (many of whom you'll meet in later chapters) told me that his or her particular bad thoughts focused squarely on whatever was for him or her the most inappropriate, awful, or shameful thing he or she could think of doing:3

Never take your eyes off your opponent ... even when you're bowing!

Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don't have clarity.

I've given you a fucking road map to the asshole who shot me and killed Kim and you want to talk about Raylene? Do your job.

I know I look like I'd rather be outside surfing, or climbing a mountain, or running a marathon than sitting here with you, but don't be fooled. I'm as serious about my job as you are about yours," he said. "I'm only asking for another thirty minutes today. What's the big rush?

I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it. As a result I'll go for days and days without leaving the house or wherever I happen to be. I'll go out long enough to get papers and pick up some food and that's it. It's strange, but instead of hating writing I love it too much.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

You can only have one thought at a time- make it a good one.

I think the most important thing is to be busy, because if you have work occupying you, you don't have time to worry about the other serious problems in life.

This is it. This is what it really means. This is what it is all about.

What you are doing on stage is the most important thing in the world at the present moment; and your memory must tell you how it is to be done.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up

You have to understand, I don't play golf for fun. It's my business. When the mailman starts delivering mail on his off day, that's when I'll start playing golf for the hell of it. I like to play in tournaments. There are many great courses around the world that I have never played that are next door to tournaments. I have not played them because I don't play for fun

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

There are two things you can do with your head down — play golf and pray.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

Visualization works best when you feel totally relaxed. Only when you have a calm state of mind can you get clear, vivid images. Do your visualization in the quiet of your home or car before leaving for the party, the convention, or the big-deal meeting. See it all in your mind's eye ahead of time.

Doctora Zainab looks at her watch. I should leave. But Mai carries her book and sits next to me. She wants me to read it for her. I start to read 'This is the House that Jack Built' and I forget Doctora Zainab's presence there is only Mai's attention and Tamer looking at us. For as long as the book lasts, we are poised, no future, no past.-Minaret