Quotes About Focus

None of us would panic at club level if we were 1-0 down. All of us would be saying to each other, 'Let's stay in the game and see what happens,' so I don't think anybody would be panicking if that is the case.

Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in order to focus only on their goal. Others have a giant lens, and they take in the whole panorama. I was that pinhole kind of person.

Every time we make a movie, 'Guardians' included, 'Black Panther' included, 'Infinity War' included, we just feel lucky to be making that movie, and that's basically what the focus is on.

There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I put at the top of my paper every day, 'Never comfortable.' It's just how I feel always.

Before I start my work in the morning, I need to have quickly browsed the entire paper, noting articles that I want to read during lunch.

If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.

Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.

I don't read the papers or watch TV.

I still manage to spend around 40 hours a week at work but it is a lot more focused on what can make money as opposed to what makes me look good in the papers.

The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.

I don't really read the papers.

I think it helps to know where you're at. I don't want to be coming down 18 knowing I need to make par, and trying to force a birdie or doing something stupid.

No matter what's going on, on the leaderboard, you have to know that par is a very, very good score and just keep playing.

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.

Par is your friend out there. Doesn't matter what holes they are.

I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.

On the left side of the court, I am in paradise.

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.

For me, content is paramount, and even if I'm to do a potboiler, the content should be excellent.

Our approach to practice, I think, is paramount!

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.