Quotes About Focus

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

Spirit first, technique second.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

When one is painting one does not think.

The children right now, the young children, everybody should go to a martial arts school. Why? Because as soon as they go to a martial arts school, they learn discipline.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Art is the exclusion of the unnecessary.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.

If you don't care about losing, you will focus on technique.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

The way is in training.

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.