Quotes About Focus

I just control what I can control. Getting better every time I step onto the floor.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

It's all about giving yourself a chance to win the opener, and then after that, you focus in on Week 2.

I'm a creature of routine. When the regular season ends I immediately dedicate myself to getting game ready for the opener of the next campaign in the fall.

I miss the ring and look forward to hearing the opening bell ring again.

I'm happy and I'm focused on my work... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.

As an assistant, when you wake up in the morning, you're opening your laptop and watching film. Then the game starts, and you're watching it until you finally fall asleep.

Teams expect a lot from an opening batsman. It is a lot of responsibility.

For an opening batsman, it's important to hit a few balls in the middle of the bat and get a few boundaries going.

As an opening batsman, it's my responsibility to spend as much time in the middle as I can and try and get big scores in the first innings so that we don't have to bat in the second innings.

Opening is about the mindset. You got to respect the new ball.

There's a lot of pageantry involved in opening day, flyovers, extra long TV breaks and stuff. To say that it's not important, more so than some other ones, it is. It's the first game of the year. but I got 30 starts to make. Each win or loss is equally as important.

My focus in the training sessions is always about movement to create openings and opportunities. When you don't have the ball, you still need the discipline to know where you should be, who you should be marking, but when we have the ball, it is important to be able to move around.

I love writing openings, and I think that can give me the key to the movie. So somehow, that can be the easiest part, to be honest.

Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

I operate best on big vision and creative detail.

The way I operate is I want to win, so I'll do whatever.

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.

I had to relearn how to love myself by forgetting the opinions of everyone else and focusing on my opinion of myself.