Quotes About Focus

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

For me, it's just about taking it one at-bat, one pitch, one play at a time.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

When I began to rap, I wasn't taking it real serious. As I start seeing good things, it's getting serious.

If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.

It's about getting in position and taking a swing. I don't care if you're taking steroids or not; if you don't do those two things, it's not going to matter anyway.

When I'm running in to bowl, I am always thinking of taking a wicket.

In 2015, I told my band that I was taking a break so I could focus on my home life, go back to school, and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human being again.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.

To tell you the truth, if you're looking at rising pretty high, then you need to find a way of taking care of these problems and not taking time off. At the end of the day, it is a very tough competition. And in a very tough competition, if you just take breaks, then it's going to become much, much more difficult.

The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

I think most of my success is my dedication, not my talent.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

My talent lies in my hard work.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't bring it every night then nothing matters.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.

I'm just looking to explore every medium to express my talent, but I think mostly it's going to be a focus on features.

From 'America's Got Talent' I've learned to not look at all the bad comments and just concentrate on the positive.