Quotes About Focus

I feel 'proud' whenever I feel that I've worked on something for a certain amount of time with a certain amount of attention. I'm not sure if I think in terms of 'pride' though.

As a decathlete, you take pride in saying, 'The elements, I'm not going to let them affect me. It's just the 11th event. Another thing you have to fight through.'

My game is kind of built around hitting shots - that's what I take pride in, and it's what separates myself from other guys.

Defense is something I take a lot of pride in.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

If we look for human frailty in humans, we will always find it. When we focus on finding the frailties of those who hold priesthood keys, we run risks for ourselves. When we speak or write to others of such frailties, we put them at risk.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

A page a day means I need to focus on a gag a day, and that's great for laughs but bad for plot, and I'm primarily a plot guy.

My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.

Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.

My primary job is to score runs and make KKR win, and that's what I am trying to do. Rest, I don't think too much. That's how I have always played my game.

What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won't make as much money.

All you need to focus on is your craft and how you act; and, of course, script selection, which is a primary reason for anybody's success because, in today's day and age, everyone is talented irrespective of fields.

As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I have made our nation's response to cyberwarfare a primary focus.

China should be America's primary national security focus going forward.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

I liken all jobs to decorating. If you don't do the preparation, sand down and prime first, you won't get a good paint job, and that's the same as everything in life.

I was on a path. I was going to become a principal dancer. I never let my mind rest.

Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.