Quotes About Focus

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.

What my losses made me think was that I needed to take my career more seriously and to train right.

I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

I have always loved playing snooker.

During the season, I'm not really on too many other things - I'm just focused on basketball. But I'm a big lover of music and I watch a lot of movies.

I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

In season, and on game days, you are so used to shoot-around, going back home to eat lunch and sleep and then coming back to the arena for the game. Or you come and practice and then you rest.

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

Before every performance, you need at least half an hour to focus on what you are about to do: the walk-on and walk-off, the lyrics, how you are going to sing it - like, the original or bring your own personal flavour to it - how are you going to make it the best.

If you write your own lyrics now, and those are the main focus in the EP... people tend to approach it as Americana, which is wild. That's what leads people to it. But it's just whatever people want; as long as they like the music.

I really love to work like a machine.

I want to be the best at what I do, and that's just me. That's what comes with Mack.

I couldn't care less who is mad at me as long as the entrepreneur comes out ahead.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.

The Madden Brothers is definitely not a side project.

I want to become a main player, a main-eventer, a headliner - whatever. I have all that's needed to do that.

When you have children, that's your main focus.

You never know how much you can do in practice because you never know if you're going to play or not, but the main thing is stay ready.

If you get into emotions, then it disturbs your work. Sometimes you focus on what's less important and not the main thing.

My main thing was just, I'm not worried about the stats or anything behind it, I just want to win. I want to win everything.

When I see the ball in the air, it's mine. The main thing is to just go and get it.

If your work isn't mission-driven or emotionally resonant to you, it will be very hard to maintain passion and focus over a long period of time, which is critical in entrepreneurship.

It was a challenge with 'In My Room,' because I was the only person in that room making the record, to maintain perspective.