Quotes About Focus

A disciplined, patient, defensive period in a Test match is not old fashioned and boring - it's essential.

Now I'm with the American Top Team, I'm a better fighter, I'm a more patient fighter, I've improved in every aspect.

You have to be more patient in Test cricket.

Everybody knows me, I circle the Patriots. That's what I do.

I built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots.

Even in those early years of Static-X, there was a pattern emerging where I would spend all my free time writing songs for Static-X and the other guys in the band spent their free time working on their other projects.

I need to play well in the majors; that's been my key. That's been something that I've created a pattern in the majors, and I just need to keep improving.

I have to believe in my process and I know I follow a certain pattern to score runs. I have to believe that I will be getting runs if I have a certain mindset and I know I will.

Paul had been training martial arts for many years.

My advice today, to established acts and new-coming acts, is the same advice I'd give to myself: pause for a minute, and really think about 'What is your goal? Where do you see yourself?'

I kind of press pause when it's a derby, and the season doesn't matter to me anymore; it's all about the derby.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

In official competitions there are mistakes you don't make or you pay for it dearly.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

I pay attention to every minute of the day.

I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean.

I don't even pay attention to the odds, to be honest with you.

I don't really pay attention to much online.

People assume I'm fearless. A lot of the things I deal with are pretty scary. Fear makes you pay attention - it's about absolute concentration.

I don't pay attention to Australia, mate.

It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.