Quotes About Focus

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

Art is only abstract when you look the other way.

we know the art of success; never forget

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!

I'm working in my mind.

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.

I can concentrate on my art.

Martial arts are art forms and require a great deal of discipline and dedication. I so admire people who focus their lives on it, because it's not an easy thing to do.

There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.

Nothing else exists when art does.

I've always been huge into martial arts.