Quotes About Focus

The money, the pictures, the fans following you everywhere you can have everything you want. There are different temptations every time, but you have to be calm with your focus and your work.

Some athletes can change, because it's not easy when you became famous too fast. The money, the pictures, the fans following you everywhere you can have everything you want. There are different temptations every time, but you have to be calm with your focus and your work.

There's definitely times when I'm tempted to look at the future, like any of us are. I'd be lying if that wasn't the case. But you have to reel back in and stay in the present.

I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

You don't have to commit a lot of fouls, especially if you are 1-0 down. If you are 1-0 down, then don't commit 10 fouls in the next ten minutes.

It doesn't matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

It wasn't until I had been writing on and off for maybe ten years that I started to establish any kind of routine, thought I couldn't put a finger on an exact date, and this routine relates simply to the aphorism 'How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.'

You have got to be maniacal and relentless - relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth.

In many ways, Nog is a lot like me, like the way he goes after Starfleet with such tenacity, much the same way I went after my acting career when I started out.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I'm doing or hobby I'm into.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

The National guys will tell you the same thing - I tend to work until the last possible minute.

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.