Quotes About Focus

When you're driven to your absolute limit, working 14 hours for 14 days straight, you have to know what you want, and not listen to all this other crap outside.

At 21, you've come out of the craziness. Maybe you've been to university, but now it's time to get serious. It's the age where you make decisions about your life.

I'm 32 this year so I'm experienced, I know how it is: sometimes you do very easy things and sometimes you can do crazy things that you don't understand. It's just to be focused on the hard work. For me, that's always the No 1 thing.

I like being in focus, in the moment, changing and adapting and creating and advancing a scene.

Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

Job creators should be able to focus on their work - not on Washington's busy-work.

I don't really miss anything, I'm so focussed on what I have to do - I'm so focussed on my work - that I don't miss any creature comforts.

When we shot 'Creed 2', we basically only had one set.

I worked extremely hard to put myself in the best position to not have to worry about things when I was out there. Because if I was out of shape, or if I didn't feel well, or if it was going to be a long match or a hot match, or something like that, a lot more things creep into your head.

I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

I always breathe cricket.

I think a lot when I'm on my own - and much of it is about cricket.

Test cricket should be No. 1 for every cricketer.

I had to chose between chess and cricket.

Whenever I have played a game of cricket, whether it is under-16, under-19, or State level, my approach has been the same.

In international cricket, the atmosphere changes, and the interest level is higher, but for a cricketer, it is still a game he has to play.

In four-day cricket, you have to be consistent; you have to bowl in one area.

Cricket isn't the be all and end all. That doesn't mean you put in less effort or don't try as hard. You put everything into it, but at the end of the day there are bigger and better things.

I've always felt that when I've been successful in red-ball cricket it has been because I've left the ball well and sometimes in cricket the shots you don't play are more important than the ones you do.

It's all about doing the little things right. It doesn't matter what form of cricket you are playing. Just keep things simple, and you will succeed.