Quotes About Focus

I'm getting my psychology degree with a focus on marriage and family therapy.

I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.

Music is really, like, my therapy. So anything that's pretty much music-involved gets your head in the game.

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime.

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

Growing up, I had always been an avid bookworm and a straight-A student. I approached my cancer the same way I approached writing my senior thesis in college: I buried my head in research journals, interviewed experts and scoured the Internet for information.

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

The thing that really sticks - and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same - is just thinking about the next day, the next week.

'Fidaa' completely sticks to being a love story. It doesn't have any digressions. Opposites attract, they say.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you're doing. I wasn't a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.

You don't want to think too much of the past, you just want to focus on what's coming up and the games coming thick and fast.

My skin got thicker. I don't listen to stuff from outside or even if I hear or if I read something, I just let it go very easily.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you'll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.

It's true that in tennis sometimes the margins are very thin.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.

I've got a lot of artistic energy, but there's only so much of it, though. You don't want to spread yourself thin.