Quotes About Focus

Nunca tive outra preocupação verdadeira senão a minha vida interior.

I limited and focused my desires to hone and refine them. To reach the infinite – and I believe it can be reached – we need to have a sure port, just one, from which to set out for the Indefinite. Today I'm an ascetic in my religion of myself. A cup of coffee, a cigarette and my dreams can substitute quite well for the universe and its stars, for work, love, and even beauty and glory. I need virtually no stimulants. I have opium enough in my soul.

Mas só a ideia de ler se me desvanece se tomo de cima da mesa um livro qualquer, o facto físico de ter que ler anula-me a leitura.

A veces darle demasiadas vueltas a lo que uno va a hacer nos paraliza. Es como cuando echas a andar: si te pones a mirarte los pies y a decir «ahora, el derecho; luego, el izquierdo, etc.», lo más seguro es que pegues un tropezón o que acabes parándote.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.

As was usual with him, he began with the least important thing and worked around and in toward the center where the meaning was.

I don't have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel a few pages, then if I can stop reading without a sense of loss, I do, and I go on to something else.

The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it.

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

Lisez, et ne rêvez pas. Plongez-vous dans de longues études. Il n'y a de continuellement bon que l'habitude d'un travail entêté. Il s'en dégage un opium qui engourdit l'âme… Read and do not dream. The only thing that is continually good is the habit of stubborn work. It emits an opium that numbs the soul…

I separate my family life from fighting.

I'm a family man now. I don't need no distractions; I don't need no big cities, no big lights, at this point in my career.

I'm a big fan of music. I need to be listening to music most of the time during the day.

I suppose trying not to fancy Richard Gere - that's been quite hard!

The fans know that I don't give at-bats away.

I don't like to think too far ahead.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

I don't think too far ahead of myself.

I love Hawkeye. I think it has something to with how he's such a marksman from far away. That's something I'd love to be on the court.

One of my big goals for 2019 is to make the cut at the Farmers.

Boxing fascinates me.

We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.