Quotes About Focus

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I've been shooting the ball and running a little bit. It's just going out here now and forgetting that I've been out and try to get back in and make sure I know what's going on out there on the floor and that we're just not lost as a team.

The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.

When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come out here for.

My job is to come out here and compete the best I can, get in the playbook, understand what they want from me, and the rest will take care of itself.

Women often focus more on delivery - what is the outcome going to be rather than what are the interactions people have in order to get there.

I became a process-oriented athlete; one who believed in giving it his best shot and not bothering about the outcome.

I find I often do my best work when I'm not attached to the outcome of the audition.

As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out.

With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.

Part of getting other people to focus on the future rather than being myopically focused on the present is about living that way yourself and showing that you can make choices today that are about future outcomes and still be having a great time into the present and enjoying your life.

I don't listen to any music when I train - I do it outdoors, and I'm not a fan of iPods on bikes.

A lot of people say that you go to the outfield and just run and go get a ball, but it's still not that easy.

Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.

I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

Mental outlook is such an important part of being a goalie.

People from outside don't know how difficult it is to be goalkeeper.

Our readers get what we do, and I don't think about what it's going to look like to the outside world. I don't really care.

In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldn't turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.

I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.