Quotes About Focus

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

When it comes down to music, I have no balance. I am 100 percent. It is like full throttle. Five hundred miles an hour.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I'm addicted to something at all times. Like, it's always music, but maybe sometimes it's a pair of pants or something else. That's just how my personality works.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

I don't have any dreams or aspirations or goals I want to meet music-wise, so there's nothing to keep me from being level-headed.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

I never listen to music when I write.

I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write.

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.