Quotes About Focus

If I deviate from my nature, it's possible that my game will be affected.

The devil's in the detail and sometimes if you're thinking too big, you can miss the detail.

I got busy with films and found it difficult to devote time to theatre.

When I was around ten, I decided I would devote myself and my life to music.

I have devoted myself to the Rockets.

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

Professional wrestling is the first non-criminal activity that I truly, truly applied myself to and believed in and devoted myself to. Otherwise, everything else I did was a whatever. I had no real interest in it, it came and went.

It's hard for me to dial in sometimes and be focussed, even though I know that I'm ready.

When I'm working, it's just about doing the best I can with whatever dialogue is in front of me today. You can't worry about the other thing.

There's always so much stuff to do. I work best when my diary just says 'MNEK, MNEK, MNEK.'

I worry about myself in the ring; I worry about what I can do and how I can dictate a fight.

I'm a real believer in getting on with the job you have - anything that happens in the future is dictated by what you do now.

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

It's not what you play but what you leave out that makes the difference.

When you're doing a different kind of film, you have to bring a different kind of attitude; you have to bring a different kind of concentration.

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.

The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It's something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.

One of the advantages of something like Slack is that I tap on the app icon, and it's just the people at my company and just the people I work with. There's a strong boundary there which aids in comprehension. It's one less molecule of glucose in my brain to manage it all.

To call myself a fighter is to be selfish at times. It makes me resent my opponent. That's motivation I can tap into.

Luckily, my creative juices are pretty much on tap. If I'm compelled to do something, I can go for it and get it done.

One advantage that I think Slack has for most people who use it is, you pull out your phone, you look at the home screen, there's the Slack icon. You know when you tap this one, it's all the people you work with, and it's only the people you work with. And that's a big advantage.

The tap of the backboard, that's a lot of body control, I've gotta be hanging in the air for a quite a bit of time.