Quotes About Focus

I can't watch a movie and watch just two minutes and turn it off, then go talk to my girlfriend.

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.

You don't get paid a whole lot for theatre, but you know, I feel more like, 'Where could I buy this experience, and how much would it cost? Who else would give me this kind of focus and put me in a room with this kind of talent?'

It's important to learn how to use your small bits of time. All those begin to count up. It's not the long amounts of time you have that are important. you should learn how to use your snatches of time when they are given to you.

I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.

My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done.

I just want to make sure that I'm competing every day and giving my best effort, because everything else just falls into place.

It is not constantly in my head that I am a champion or a UFC fighter. I forget about that. It is very important to other people, and I am glad to have the support, but fighting is my passion. It is what I like to do.

I love the discipline of shooting film, because you don't cover everything, and I'm glad that I learned that way.

When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

I just try to do the best job I can with what I'm given. My main focus is the work and not the glamour.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

I won the glare with the bowler every time, because I knew that at some time he was going to have to turn around and go back to his mark.

When I play on stage, I have to drink a glass of water.

I actually had huge problems with my glasses steaming up all the time. I had to train very carefully around the limitations caused by wearing them.

You can get glory days, bad days but the most important thing is to just keep your head down and keep working because at the end of it all if you work hard everything is going to be fine.

I always want to play, and I always want to hold a ball or glove or bat.

I'm always involved with training and the martial arts. It's not like I go to a desk job somewhere and then throw on the gloves.

I need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.

You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.

I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away.

When you're working, you're in the present, but you've always got one eye on where your next job might be coming from, and I don't think that will ever go away.