Quotes About Focus

I admire people who can spend every aspect of their life in one discipline and really go all the way. I feel the only way I could achieve some type of excellence is if I connect to other people, other disciplines.

Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

Discover your passion and do it to the best of your ability.

I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion.

I think it's quite easy to get caught up in the discussions about a show that people are having. But you have to tell the story you were going to tell.

The people who have been unjustly disenfranchised by our criminal justice system and the people who daily fight for them always have, and always will be, the inspiration and focus of my efforts.

All the attention in the world won't do my dishes.

Everything really came together on '1992.' That isn't to dismiss my earlier works - they were great - but when I focused myself on hip-hop everything just clicked.

When I concentrate, my face is deadpan and I can see there is a coldness there - when I'm making business decisions I know I can be quite dispassionate.

Not any disrespect to Kovalev or anything but I'm not focussed on Kovalev, I'm not a fan of his.

No disrespect to any other competition, but what drives me now is majors, Ryder Cups, the Olympics.

When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.

I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.

I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.

Dad was always working in the living room. There was no distinction between work and life - it was the same thing.

I have bad vision, but it's not distorted. It's low power!

Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.

You must not let your negative emotions distract you from achieving your goals.

Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.