Quotes About Focus

You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.

If your game is to take everything on then you have to stick with that and if it's your game to get out of the way of the short ball then that's what you do.

As a new ball bowler, it's my job to stick to the basics.

I just stick to my job, which is acting. Things like posters, publicity material, and promotions are entirely the film-maker's prerogative. I don't get into all of that.

I feel like, with any show, the creator should stick to it the first few years and get it off the ground.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.

I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.

Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.

Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

It's not ideological to ask someone to stick to the question presented.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.

I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera.

Everyone wants to have a career year, but if I stick to what I'm doing, I like my chances. I'll be fine.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

Sticking with your craft goes a long way in ensuring that you'll be successful.

In the past, the main problem for me was sticking with the game plan.

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.

I am fine-tuning certain aspects of my game. Beforehand, I was guilty of doing a lot of my best work away from the goal. But now I am getting in between the sticks and putting the ball in the back of the net.

Everything I do, it sticks. I move on to a different hobby, but I don't forget about them. I don't drop anything.

Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks to you, and that's the film you're going to make.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.