Quotes About Focus

I spent as much time on the rifle range as I spend with my knife in the peanut butter jar, I'd be a crack shot.

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Grass don't grow on a busy street," Grandma said. "Better to be smart than to have hair.

Never leave cubby. Work appears when cubby is left unattended.

I was getting nowhere fast on all this stuff, but as Yoda says, "Do or do not. There is no try." So, I was all about the do today.

She's never where she is,' I said. 'She's only inside her head.

She's never where she is. She's only inside her head.

She's never where she is," I said. "She's only inside her head.

It didn't much matter where the path went, she wasn't the least bit curious, she just needed a direction.

I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

During a round, unless the crowd is quiet, which a lot of times it isn't in my fights, you're standing there and the coach yells, 'One-two, one-two low kick.' Whatever it is, you don't really hear stuff. When you're in a fight and leather is being traded, I mean, are you really going to hear your coach?

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

I'm patient when it comes to my career, which is unlike me, but there are no stars in my eyes. I make where I go. It's that sort of thing.

The game of football requires attention constantly. If you miss one play, you can miss a lot of action - unlike some other sports.

I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given time and juggling them accordingly.

My faith in Islam is not unlike my faith in the game of basketball: Both require immense determination, focus, passion and discipline.

I think the one thing about the Zoom calls is unlike being in a room with people where you can look away or drift off, I feel like with Zoom, everyone's face is just dead center, head on, there is no drifting. It takes a lot of energy from me.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

I always feel that I am writing for somebody who is bright but impatient. Someone who doesn't have unlimited time. That is my sense of the reader. So I have got to get to the point.

I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.

I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.