Quotes About Focus

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

In the Marine Corps, everything had a purpose.

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus.

I'm a daydreamer - a purposeful one when I'm writing fiction.

It would probably be better if I got involved in fewer things just because I'd have more time to write for my own purposes... But if somebody calls you up with a really cool project, it's hard to just say 'no' because you don't feel like working.

The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.

I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

I am trying to pursue excellence.

What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.

If there is a job that you feel passionate about, do what you can to pursue that job; if there is a purpose about which you are passionate, dedicate yourself to that purpose.

When I was 11, I decided that music was what I wanted to pursue as a career.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.

I think no matter what you are going to pursue, if you pursue it like it's the most important thing, then everything else will be lost. And at the end of the day, when it's time to evaluate the path that you chose for your life, there has to be something more.

I'd love to start doing some films and really kind of pursue acting as much as possible. That's really where my main focus is.

It is important to be clear about what you want and pursue that passionately.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

I never pursued a career relentlessly.

I have intentionally not pursued musical theater.