Quotes About Focus

Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.

I just need to build myself up and get myself in the right place and if I do that I'm going to play great darts all the time.

Darts in such a little time has really changed my life.

As a darts player when you're away, you're in your room 90% of the time, going to play darts, back to the room, sleep and play darts, that's the way it is.

I never went to my high school dance, and didn't date much.

I don't have time to date.

I'm not dating anyone until I get my career where I want it to be.

I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.

Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my attitude, my effort every day.

My focus is 100 percent on my day job, on the state of Arizona.

It took me nine years to get to the level of being Mr. Olympia, and it's pretty much a 24-hour-a-day job every day of the year, really, if you want to compete on that level.

From day one in summer league, I had a chip on my shoulder.

From day one, my administration has been keenly focused on growing Alabama's economy and bringing good jobs to our state.

I've been trying to be champion since day one.

Golf is day-to-day. It's shot to shot; it's not four days at a time.

In the day-to-day, one only thinks about his club in training and trying to be in the starting line-up.

Even if you're working a day-to-day job in the meantime to support your creative endeavors, you shouldn't give up, and make sure you don't lose focus.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

For me personally, and I'm sure not everyone is like this. But for me I find it difficult to choreograph in the daytime.

If you don't control the ball, you're dead.

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

I love a daily deadline.

Deadlines concentrate the mind. But deadlines should not be dogmas.