Quotes About Focus

Some drivers are like that. When they get a bit angry, they can perform better.

I do not eat before I perform.

I've always felt I perform best under the brightest lights and the biggest moments.

When I get up in the morning, I look forward to the games and I'm just buzzing. At the end of the day, if you are nervous or scared before games, you are not going to perform. I just go out there and think, 'If I get a chance, I'm going to score' and that's it.

I'm always a competitor. I'm not there just to have a good time. I want to play well and perform well.

What we can control is our performance and our execution, and that's what we're going to focus on.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

To do well at a new competition, you need a lot of good performances.

I have always given 100 per cent, power and performance.

I want the best names in the division. The fear brings out the best performance in myself.

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

My focus is on giving my best and I have to enjoy my performance as then only audience will enjoy.

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

I've always believed that I performed better under pressure.

You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.

I'm a hardcore performer. The rest follows.

I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.

I believe if you are a good performer, then nothing can stop you.