Quotes About Focus

No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.

I was definitely different from the other kids... I was more ambitious. I knew what I liked and what I wanted, and I worked really hard. I was a very serious kid.

Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.

I feel like I had as normal a childhood as anyone, but it had a certain focus. Maybe other kids focused on sports.

I like to say jiu-jitsu is like mathematics. It has to be exact otherwise you don't have it.

Only commit to things you know you can accomplish because they're incredibly important to you. Otherwise, you set yourself up for continued failure.

You have be to ambitious, or otherwise, you go nowhere in life.

If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

When it comes to people I love and care about, I may condense the time, but I'm giving them every ounce of my energy. When it comes to creation, I block create and block focus on business.

I have a short time to play this game. I'm trying to get every ounce of it out of my body.

That's what a professional does, focuses every week, every practice, every play, every game, every ounce of energy you have.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

We should be on the forefront on this focus on justice, and do all we can to care about our community, to care about our society, and to make our communities a much better place.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.

Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

We focus on Eventbrite and our family. That's how we spend our time, full stop.

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

I want to make sure that ours is a party that is focusing on both middle class issues and not becoming a party of our two coasts.