Quotes About Focus

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

My on-court temperament is totally to just win and destroy.

When you fully focus in the match, you don't think too much about the atmosphere and the climate. Even if the temperature goes up, we will both sweat the same.

I remember, as a kid, my grandfather would grab my temples and say, 'You've got to focus, Jake. You've got to focus.'

There's people that believe tempo is the star. There's people who believe the system is the star. There's people that believe the players are the stars. I come from that mindset.

I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.

If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.

Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I'm not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me.

I try to look for tempo in my run-up to make sure my knees are lifting up instead of going long. That brings an energy to my run-up, try and make myself feel as tall as I can.

My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

drive, he sd, forchrist's sake, lookout where yr going.

Like serious reading itself, travel has now become an act of resistance against the distractions of the electronic age, and against all the worries that weigh us down, thanks to that age. A good book deserves to be finished, just as a haunting landscape tempts further experience of it, and further research into it. Travel and serious reading, because they demand sustained focus, stand athwart the nonexistent attention spans that deface our current time on Earth.

He concentrated on braking, shifting, accelerating. Death could not find him. He was moving too fast for it.

Robert Dickie

The world, it seemed, had been busy playing chess, While I had played checkers . . . and ignored the rest.

It's like anything you do; if you want to do it well, you have to work at it.

Ramsey spun an uncurled paper clip

Armstrong squinted.

If you go in thinking you're going to lose, you've already lost. If you go in thinking you're going to win, you'll be disappointed if you lose. So just go in to the competition with the attitude that you're going to compete, which is all you can control anyway.

If she didn't have a deadline hanging over her head like a guillotine blade, she couldn't focus worth a damn.

We must learn this lesson again today. There can be no dillydallying around with the commands of Christ. We are engaged in warfare, the issues of which are life and death, and every day that we are indifferent to our responsibilities is a day lost to the cause of Christ.

Jesus did not have the time nor the desire to scatter himself on those who wanted to make their own terms of discipleship.

Victory is never won by the multitudes.