Quotes About Focus

I've got to have two hands on the ball when I'm leaving the pocket, when I'm moving in the pocket.

It's up to me to use my brain, be clever, find the pockets of space, and get on the ball.

I always liked to take on the middle pockets. They're much harder.

I think if I just do what I do every day, on the extraordinary Olympic stage, I could be a podium contender.

I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

That's how life is. All eyes on you, and all things point to you. Once things don't go well, fingers going to point.

One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do.

I wasn't a point guard. I was a killer.

Every team I play, I'm playing them like we playing the Golden State when they had Kevin Durant. Every point guard I play, I'm playing Steph Curry. Every shooting guard I'm playing, I'm playing James Harden. Every three-man I'm playing, I'm playing LeBron and KD.

From the bowler's point of view, if I look at a batsman, I don't see his shots, I see his defence. If a player has a strong defence, he is a very good player.

No amount of data will tell you if a feature should be in the product, because it doesn't exist. You need to have a very clear leader with a clear point of view... otherwise, you get a mishmash of features and stuff that doesn't make a lot of sense.

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.