Quotes About Focus

I'm an only child and I'm the whole focus of the family. Basically, I'm proud that I'm making them proud.

You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

If you're on Earth as a single-purpose engine, and there's only one thing you want to do for the rest of your life, have at it.

I know only one way: work hard.

I think there is only one way to write fiction - alone, in a room, without interruption or any distraction.

The only time I think about my contract is when I'm asked about it by the media.

Even little adjustments in promos or being a heel, different mannerisms in the ring, every week there's something I can do better. The only time I get flustered is when I try to do too many things at once. It's better to do one thing each week and work on that.

The only time I have fun is when I'm on the court.

The only time I won't be playing is when I've got a hangover.

The only time I really enjoyed myself before was when I was training. Besides that, everything else was an absolute nightmare. It was all about self.

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I like to pick out a certain part of each show I'm in and I watch it when I'm not onstage or in my dressing room. I'll go down to the stage and watch that part of the show each night.

I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.

If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

A concert is my experimentation time. I practice playing something several different ways, but in a concert, inevitably I get more ideas onstage, in that combination of focus and adrenaline, than I could ever get in the practice room.

If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.

Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.

I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.

I don't work with a lot of pressure, you know? I don't think, 'Oh, this one has gotta work or I'm finished.' I just kind of get onto the next one.

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.

When I am doing something I give it 100 per cent. I work on it, do it and go onto the next thing.

Basketball is my escape, and I cannot bring any of my problems onto the court.