Quotes About Focus

Listen, there's been times in my life like the two years that I only listened to jazz, and probably nothing after 1966. When I went to the Manhattan School of Music, the library didn't have anything after 1966. In order to get good at that, I had to tunnel-vision and focus on that.

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

I used to be an open-spear fisherman, and if you're looking for fish, you're never going to see them. In an almost meditative state, you have to pick out anomalies, something out of the ordinary.

Oregon deserves a Governor who is fully focused on the duties of state.

I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organisation is.

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.

I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone in the organisation that's willing to do it.

Even when you are not having the ball, you have to stay consistent, organised, and that's what keeps you in the game.

I'm a very motivated person, and that goes hand in hand with being very organised. I always plan what I need to do to get the best out of every day.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

My aspiration is that M&M become one of the most customer-centric organizations in the world. If we focus on understanding our customers, we will be able to develop customer-centric innovations.

When you look at organizations that work, everyone is on the same page as far as what they are doing.

People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.

When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.

I was a real serious kid, real intense, and there were a lot of things that I was doing by myself I took seriously, like organizing little pieces of paper, cutting out things from magazines, and filing them away.

I'm very detail oriented. Everything that takes a lot of dedication and creativity I do in the morning when there is light and I'm really concentrated.

Comics have years to explain this stuff, and in a movie, you have to focus on one thing. So it's about kind of streamlining, I think. Some of the most successful origin films actually have a narrower focus.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

I come from a financial news background, originally, so that is a big area of focus for me.

I'm originally from jiu-jitsu.

I thought I fought a really good Orlando Salido. I never let him get into his fight. I knew what I needed to do against him and I think that was the difference. I was able to control the fight.

You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy's going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

You see a lot of managers who are working and yet are already talking about other countries and other teams. But that's not for me.