Quotes About Focus

When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.

Paris is a really nice city. My family has felt very good here from the first day they arrived. That makes it a lot easier for me to focus on football.

I've always had that mindset of, 'OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don't get too high, don't get too low - just enjoy it.' Don't ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I'm not going to an amusement park, I'm going to a baseball field.

I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

When I leave the car park at Melwood, I try and become a completely different person. I try to get away from it. You have got to. Otherwise you end up like Jamie Carragher - obsessed!

I'm not going to go out there and throw the ball all around the park and throw it to the other team.

You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street.

In front of 40,000 people, you don't really want to drop a catch or misfield. It's part and parcel of the game.

I've had injuries that have hampered my career but that is part and parcel of being a footballer. You just have to bounce back and remain focused.

The long-term focus of index funds is a much needed counterweight to the short-termism favored by so many market participants.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

I never stay anywhere - parties, museums, meetings - longer than three hours.

I did not have a normal life. I'd be training when my sister would be at birthday parties and sleepovers. I finished high school by correspondence, basically working two full-time jobs. The last years were very, very tough. But I was willing to do that. It's all about sacrifice.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds.

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

Multiplexes need to be partners in increasing footfalls, but they have been too focused - maybe rightly so - in expanding their footprint of screens, because we are such an under-screened country.

At times it happens that if you start thinking about a big partnership then that will put you under pressure.

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

Honestly, it takes a lot of dedication and sacrifice. When I was trying to get better a couple years ago, I was not going out. I had a couple of people get mad at me. I wasn't going out and partying, I was just doing what I had to do to get better.

I've changed my whole life around, I've devoted my life for tennis instead of partying. I'm very happy, you know, I'm 27, I really feel like I have another 5 years left in me, and I still, honestly feel like I have still got the best tennis, best things ahead of me.