Quotes About Focus

When I throw the hook, I think of my arm as a whip with a rock attached to the end.

When I'm standing in a stadium packed with 80,000 screaming fans, I can't just whip out my Bible before I run. That's when I start praying! It's so loud that I can't even hear what I'm saying, but it always helps.

The ball is just whipped off you in the Premier League. You have to maintain focus.

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.

When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

Once I step over that white line I become The Bowler.

When I started as a White House correspondent, there was a lot of criticism from guys saying, 'She focuses too much on the person but not enough on policy.' I never understood that argument at all. I just didn't agree with the premise.

If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.

Although racism does, of course, occur in individual acts, these acts are part of a larger system that we all participate in. The focus on individual incidences prevents the analysis that is necessary in order to challenge this larger system.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

My mentality is that no matter how good or bad the previous play was, move on to the next one.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

At the start of every game, you are focussed on the game you are playing, so you don't look back at previous games.

In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.

Our focus is to see that we are growing faster than the industry and, whichever product we launch, we do better than competition. We try and manage our operations better than competition. Essentially, we try to be better than what we were the previous year.

You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.

Every fight since I lost in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, every step for me is very important. Every fight becomes harder for me, more important for me than the previous fight.

I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.

I would say television is a focus, and expanding our channel platform is a focus. As for buying libraries, when catalogs are going down in value, the answer is that it's all about price!

Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

I'm continuing to prepare very well because I have my responsibility and my (pride) as a man and an athlete.

There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.