Quotes About Focus

I just think I've got to be more aggressive at both ends of the floor. When I'm aggressive on the defensive end it really helps me on offense.

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

I'm trying to focus on every play and not to worry about the offensive end.

One of my roles is rebounding the ball and not giving up offensive boards, and I feel like I can be one of the best in the league at that.

I just have to put even more focus and concentration in for 90 minutes and try to be mistake-free, while also expressing myself in the offensive parts of the field.

I can have an off-night on the offensive end, but I should never have an off-night on defense.

You have to go out and find a way to compete every day. I know what I can do and what I can offer the team.

I took a break from TV for about three-four years. During that time, I had to let go of some of the best shows that were offered to me, as I wanted to focus on films. It was believed that if you are seen too much on TV, you won't get films.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.

Though acting offers would keep coming and going, and I would pick up only the ones that I find good, my hands are literally full with candles... I can't think beyond them.

You have so many offers coming to you so as an actor it is all about finding which project to invest your energy in.

That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

The office during the day has become the last place people want to be when they really want to get work done. In fact, offices have become interruption factories.

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

I just wish the California officials would focus more on cleaning up the air in their state than trying to look like they're doing something globally for climate change.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

I don't think about, 'Oh, I'm finally getting my respect,' because I don't care about this.

When you're acting in a scene, you're focused on doing the scene. You can't break character and go, 'Oh my God, I love what you're doing!'

Playing for the Wolverines, you have to prepare each and every day to beat Ohio State. If you do that, you're going to win a fair share of your games.

My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone back and paid more attention.

Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there.

Apparently, I'm the angriest man. I don't know. It's just an interpretation. If it was someone else, they might be called focused or competitive. I'm not that angry or grumpy, but if you want to say I'm angry because I'm focused or competitive, then that's okay.

It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'