Quotes About Focus

I can't be complacent and have to be aggressive. Sometimes I can be too nonchalant in a game.

That's the thing, never get complacent.

Shooting takes up all my time. But I'm not complaining!

As a child I could lie in bed and do absolutely nothing for hours but once I decided to do something, big or small, I could not stop until it had been completed.

I always loved the two-minute drill since I was a little kid. The pressure's on you to make a play, so whenever I get in there, I want to make sure that I start the drive off with a completion and then start getting balls down the field.

For me, keeping it simple is the best way to live life, to not complicate things, to sort of keep things in perspective.

It's so easy to make things complicated in business.

Our language - the way that we deal with most actors is we don't like to get very complicated because we don't want them to think too much because we find it takes them out of the moment.

It's definitely complicated, but it's all about the music. When people focus on other things, I think that's when it gets lost, and I would just rather focus on the music of it all.

When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

The only way for me to compose is intensively. To pick at it over a long period doesn't seem to work.

I have to stop rushing things. I have to be composed in my mind and slow things down. I think that will make me a better finisher.

According to me, one composer should do one film.

I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts.

When I'm by myself - composing or writing film scores - it's very lonely. I'm just sitting by myself in the studio.

If you close one eye and imagine a bright light constantly in front of the other eye, your vision is compromised. You can only see about 30 percent of what you should be able to see.

I don't like compromises. I will give everything.

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.

There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

Some days, you don't score, but then you have to make sure you don't concede.

Of course you don't want to concede a goal in any game.

When I am at home, I am there and when I'm shooting or doing any other thing, I concentrate on that.

Concentrate, don't embroider.