Quotes About Focus

Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

If you let yourself believe that you are unsure about what you're doing, then the game is fast. But if you go out there and you're confident and have an idea of what you're supposed to do, then the game slows down for you.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.

Every fight day, I just stay in my room the entire day, and I just stay in bed. I sleep as late as I can, which usually isn't very late; I'm kind of an early riser. But I try to just stay there in bed. I don't usually eat the day of the fight. I don't eat until after the fight.

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.

As a little girl, I could not sit still until my parents told me it was time to go to the gym.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

We now live in the era of the super-specialist - of clinicians who have taken the time to practice at one narrow thing until they can do it better than anyone who hasn't.

When Ando arrives in the studio, he picks up his pen even before he gets a cup of tea, and he stays seated until the very last train at night. He hardly eats, just nibbles at little balls of rice at his desk.

Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.

I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.

Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.

You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had forgotten to cherish the things that I loved, the things I wanted to keep.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

No matter how much it hurts, you gotta stay focused on what you're there for and your goals, just don't give up.