Quotes About Focus

If there's anything that offends me, especially if it's towards my family, I just block them. I don't accept that. I don't get upset because I like to focus on the positive.

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.

I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'

People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.

Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.

It's what my friends always tell me, that I'm a strong person and the best. But my head has to be clear before I run so nothing upsets me.

So much of the game is mental, and that's one thing that I've always wanted to be good at. That if I miss a shot or make a bad play, to never let your opponent see that you are in duress or upset - that they've won in any way. So if I make a big game-time bucket or if I miss a shot, you'll see the same mannerisms. I move on to the next play.

I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog biscuits and go upstairs. By the time I've consumed my Diet Coke and had a quick run through the morning email and Twitter feed, I will probably be compos mentis enough to work.

I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn't think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I'm rarely secure about anything else in my life.

You don't want to get nervous or uptight. Nobody plays well that way.

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them - education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy.

A gifted man does not waste his life on women.

A camera is just like a woman, as long as you have one of them hanging around your neck....life is just fine

You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?

There is clearly much left to be done and whatever else we are going to do we had better get on with it.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Go ahead with your life your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.