Quotes About Focus

Just continue what you are doing. You should have no hesitation, no stopping - just keep on going to the next level.

I was gonna be an actor and no one was stopping me.

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me.

My brain never stops thinking about basketball, and even when I'm asleep, I'm thinking about basketball. I love it; I love the Xs and Os and the preparation of it.

I don't think you can work properly if you have anxiety about something; it stops you doing the work you're paid to do.

No matter how fast or how slow you get to the quarterback, it all goes to slow motion when you get there. Everything just stops. You don't see anything but the quarterback. You don't hear anything but the quarterback's breath. It's almost like you're a shark. Your eyes get real big and everything's just quiet.

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.

I don't see a holiday as a time to break from boxing - it never stops.

Music stops you from thinking.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

Sometimes I finish a movie, and I get used to a certain lifestyle, and when that stops, I get a bit lost for about a week. 'No one is bringing me lunch anymore - I've got to go do that myself?' I lose the main point of my focus.

As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I'll jot down more goals.

When it comes to playoff time, the game slows down, the offense slows down and you've got to be able to get stops.

I want to be that guy who stops players.

When the work stops the success stops.

I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything.

On Mallrats, a lot of times they'd have to come find me. I'd be off hanging around. Looking around the stores, hanging out with people. So, he'd have to come find me.

It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores.

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.