Quotes About Focus

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

But I'm not going to play fucking University Challenge with you now or at any time. I've got a dead woman and somebody strangled her in her own front room and that's all that matters to me right at this moment.

I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. From what I'm told, that matters to him more.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

if you're going to shoot, shoot.

I'm someone who needs goals and direction, and fighting provided that for me.

By adding support for eldercare, spousal care, and children beyond the birth stage, Deloitte's family leave program provides our people with the time they need to focus on their families in important times of need.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

If someone is complaining about the question or the questioner rather than providing an answer, they're usually trying to change the subject.

I'm not going to worry about proving people wrong. My goal isn't to prove people wrong. You can't worry about what other people say.

If we collectively set our minds to improving technology of a particular type we can do that, and it takes some collective action, some support for research, or some provision of patent protection, or a mixture of the two, and some focussed energy.

Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

I read Psalms 18 before every game.

There have been competitions where I got on the line and psyched myself out before I even let myself compete. I was thinking about the other competitors and not giving myself a fair chance. I had to shift to thinking, 'Just focus on yourself and doing what your coach has taught you to do.'

Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.

And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

Even academic elites are drawn to the figure of the murderer, which has long been a focus of attention for psychiatrists, sociologists, and criminologists.

When we turn on our observation capabilities, we become much more in the moment and much more powerful. Psychic powers have been known to develop from consistent practice of paying attention. It's available to us all. It's all in what we choose to practice.

First and foremost, it's a psychological issue and it's mental concentration - that's all it is. We're all big enough and strong enough to hold onto to the ball, it's just whether or not you want to focus in on it.

I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.

I used a psychologist when I was playing, It's one of the most powerful things: how you can have a concrete head and not let things in.