Quotes About Focus

You've got to sustain drives in this league.

I think there is a general view that sustainability is really important. I do think it is a top priority. I don't know that it's the top priority.

Two eyes are given for a reason. One eye to always look at the opportunity. The second eye to always keep looking at the challenges. Because if you don't balance both, it's very easy to get carried away one way or the other. And it's when you balance the two that you find the most sustainable model.

We need a national focus on increasing the sustainable growth rate of our economy.

I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.

Businesses should focus on solving problems, putting the customer first, delivering value - not gimmicks - and growing in a sustainable manner.

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

The top principle for disruptive and sustaining innovation is that it has to have a laser focus on customers. Innovation begins with their needs and expectations.

We always have great practices, and the competition is high, and the intensity is high; it's just about doing that now in a game and sustaining it for 48 minutes.

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

This is a hard enough sport when you're giving 100 percent. If you're giving anything less than that, it'll swallow you up.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Nothing is more important to me than the work itself. If I feel I am getting swayed too much, I take a step back... My focus is also on the performance.

I swear every day I love it more and more. If you want to go 47.0 in a 100 free and you're 47.1, you have all these years behind you and it comes down to a 47-second race. It can be so brutal sometimes, but that's the part I like about it.

Now, I don't sweat the small stuff, just the things that really matter.

The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.

I don't play to sweat, I play to win.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

I don't really sweat the petty things.

I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber.

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.

Sweating the small stuff is important in boxing and life. On a movie, we have production assistants who're 18 and 19 years old. If someone asks you for a cup of coffee, and you bring them a cup of coffee that's cold, I make a big deal of that. I make a really, really big deal of that. You have to pay attention to details.

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.