Quotes About Focus

I tried not to focus on the fact that I'm playing Venus Williams and tried to focus on myself. To show that I'm Sofia Kenin is obviously the cherry on top.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.

If you're mentally ready, you're willing to go the extra mile.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

I go out there and live or die by the sword and I'm willing to put the work in that needs to be to obtain the goal that I set out to do.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

In order to be one of the best defensive linemen in the NFL - which I am - it's doing things that other people aren't willing to do.

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.

We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems.

There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.

Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of my energy. I liked to do things solely, and I already had a taste of the quest for perfection, which is unusual in a little kid.

The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

The Finals are about a test of wills.

The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

Jeff Wilson goes to a dark place every single game. It's different than it is in practice. You can tell he's angry, he attacks it, he wants contact, he deals contact. He delivers pain. It's awesome. You can just see it in his eyes.

I definitely prefer the courts at Wimbledon - they're a little bit slower. I know I can play well there, I just need to keep the momentum there and take care of everything that I can.

Once you step on the court, you see the crowd, you see the final, you see I'm here playing another Wimbledon final.