Quotes About Focus

I don't try to please anybody. I try to win.

I race to win, not to please people.

I just focus on trying to please and entertain those who have faith in my talent.

We're not trying to be everything for everybody. We're not trying to please the masses.

I'm not trying to please everybody. I'm just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.

If players are pleased to come off the pitch, that says they are not interested and don't want to be on there.

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet.

I'm going to focus on myself and continue to get myself better because I have plenty of things I need to work on.

There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.

I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.

Apart from my dad, James is the most driven man I've ever met. They both have the attitude that there's plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

To make big runs you've got to bat plenty of time.

I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

I have to plot my path to greatness.

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

When I'm writing, I don't read much crime at all - you don't want to get distracted by other people's plots.

I have to be grateful I am in the gym. I'm just trying to plug away as much as I can before it might come to a point where I can't be in the gym at all.

I just kind of keep doing what I'm doing, keep plugging away, kind of hide behind closed doors sometimes, which is nice, kind of the way I'd like to keep it.

Once the shooting starts, we don't mind whether it is 43 degrees plus or minus 6 degrees: we just keep working.

When we started Aftermath, we had something like 20 artists, and it was driving me crazy. I couldn't sit down and focus on any of it. Plus, it was doubly hard because you ended up crushing these people's dreams when you had to let them go.