Quotes About Focus

It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

My teachers probably tried to get me interested in other things at school, but I was very young when I decided that I wanted to act. By the time I was 12, I was hell-bent on it.

Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.

If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates' and teachers' day is you being there filming, not the school.

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I've always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That's my style.

Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.

What matters is what you do. And this runs counter to what a lot of the culture teaches people about putting feelings first. By contrast, resilient people focus not on what they intend, but on what they achieve.

By doing something repeatedly, one's mind becomes sharper. It teaches you dedication.

I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

As a goalkeeper, you always expect every team to give you nightmares.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

My individual role is to take the innings as deep as I can and perform in a way that benefits the team most.

I don't really focus on these things - on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field - stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I'm a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that's my primary responsibility.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

I'm somebody that really locks in to play, and it's not easy to say hello to all the ushers and all the people who work around the team and then try to execute the game plan and beat the other team.

When I'm on the pitch, I only think about helping the team and doing well.

Landon Donovan has always been about being the focal point of the team.