Quotes About Focus

I stay in my lane and do what I want to do. I don't worry about the outside world.

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

Mind over mattress.

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

When we're suffering, we kind of have this notion that we kind of should stop living and we should just focus on his how to 'get over it,' how to just 'get to the other side.'

I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

Put no more than three messages on a lemonade stand. You have to describe what your product is, why it's the best, and how much it is. Don't be drawing turtles and flowers and footballs all over it, distracting people. Keep it clean.

I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.

To me, I don't even think I had a childhood. From when I was a baby to 12 years old, yes. But as soon as I left the Bahamas, that stuff was over. It was just straight business. I'm on a mission. That's how it's always been.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.

I know the position I'm in. Guys are going to try and take me out, but I got to be able to overcome it all and not let those type of things affect me.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a passion for something, you can overcome obstacles, if you float through life without having anything to hold on to or get you fired up emotionally and to focus on, I think it's really hard to overcome things.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.

I tell my engineers that they should not overload me with information.

You can never overlook a guy.

I am someone who doesn't pay so much attention to how I am looking. I get so involved in what I am doing, so I overlook that.

I think competing gets overlooked sometimes. The competitiveness that you bring to a game and an at-bat, it can go a long way. It really can.

I didn't need to be motivated by other people overlooking me. My motivation was internal, to be better every day.

Sometimes I wanted to be aggressive. I felt like if I wasn't getting shots up or if I wasn't being overly aggressive on defense then I wasn't playing good. I finally realized just to slow down and just let the game come to you.

Everybody has different issues, good or bad, that they carry with them on the court. It affects you. And for me, it affected me to where sometimes I would be overly aggressive and, in other ways, it would affect people to where they can't perform on the court.