Quotes About Focus

My lifestyle is completely different from what it was before, I am not 23 years old anymore, I am focused on training and fighting, not night clubs and partying.

Partying? I don't really think about that.

When I make mistakes, I just get on with it. I don't try to impress with that killer pass to make sure everybody notices me.

I'm just trying to find ways to continue to pass and continuing to be consistent in every aspect of my game.

When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

As far as passenger cars are concerned, I have always said, in the past, we will work more with partners and partnerships. Our focus on our own would be on the SUVs.

When you think shoot, shoot, shoot you miss open passes.

If you're having sequences where you're keeping 20 passes or more, then you're only growing in confidence in the game.

Obviously I'm not happy when I miss the passes so I look to get that right. I work very hard on that.

When I'm reading a book, I don't notice the passing of time.

You can't really win without serving and passing, you got to hit the ball in the court.

You don't just turn up and have a passing game. You can't sit back, you have to be 100 percent concentrated to make it work.

Find something you enjoy doing and give it everything you've got, and the money will take care of itself.

This is one of the keys to successful investing: focus on the companies, not on the stocks.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

I had been a religion major, with a focus on scriptural languages, and upon receiving my degree, felt qualified to do--nothing.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

The image produced by the scope was wonderfully sharp, but also extremely narrow,

Every kitchen, to some extent, is an operating room, whether conscious of the responsibility or not.

So if you want to become more successful, I have a very simple, terrifying piece of advice: Cut your number of clients in half.

My ability to help my clients was limited by our narrow focus. This was partly my fault for defining myself as a specialist, but I eventually came to see that this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture.

The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.

I'm gonna take all my sadness, frustration, anger and energy and channel it into becoming the best possible student. I am going to become a learning machine... Go ahead, go to all your parties. Go ahead and go home to your families and friends every weekend. You are probably smarter than me. But it doesn't matter. While you are goofing around, I'm gonna be studying, and I'm gonna catch you.