Quotes About Focus

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

That's the one thing I probably don't like about politics - the focus on the individual. To me, it's more important to get it done, whether I get the credit for it or not.

One skill of a great entrepreneur is to get a whole complicated discussion and then say, 'We're going to do this one and we're only going to do this one'. Managers are good at prioritizing. Entrepreneurs know what is the one thing.

The one thing is the more I play second base, the more I can work on the intricate movements of that position.

The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I've ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else - all these cool, great things - come along with it.

The one thing about me is that I keep my personal life away from my sporting life. And, when I am training for a fight, that is my focus.

That's the one thing I don't like hearing, when someone says, 'We'll see what happens, see what happens here, see what happens there.' Forget all of that.

The one thing I'm good at is taking things day by day.

I think the one thing about Kawhi is he literally stays level-headed all the time, he never gives up, he never gets down.

The one thing I've learned about this sport is that it's OK to be selfish at times.

The one thing I'll never do is I'll never jeopardize my preparation. I'll never jeopardize any time or energy or efforts that need to be put into my preparation to play football.

Cooking used to be the one thing that kept my mind exactly where my body was. It's a sign of growing up that I can do that other ways now.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

The only thing I rely on is caffeine.

The only thing we can control is the daily work we put in, and that's all that matters.

When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

The only thing I want to think about the moments before a race is competing. I don't want the little things to distract me.

The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

The high note is not the only thing.

Acting is the only thing I ever really wanted to do, and I'm really ill-prepared to do anything else.

If I am playing a game, I want to give my best, and that's the only thing that helps me sleep peacefully at night.