Quotes About Focus

In life a lot of things happen, you have to just learn to ignore them.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

You get caught up thinking about the future, you lose sight of the present.

When I'm racing, I'm thinking about my own race. I'm not thinking about anybody.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

I had a lot of fun playing football and basketball, but deep down, the chess match or cat-and-mouse game between the pitcher and batter in baseball really drew me in. It's a thinking man's game, and for me, nothing can compare to that.

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

As an actor, I'm ambivalent because I'm focused on the other person and what they're giving me, what I need to be giving them, and what the character is thinking.

I'm just thinking about being the best I can be for the team first because that's what comes first.

In football, I have learned to forget the past, think about the present, and the future will come as it may - thinking about it would be a mistake.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more.