Quotes About Focus

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

Real ballers don't golf.

Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

I have to focus and keep things together as much as anyone with a real job... It's just that I know, from experience, that the more fun I have doing something that the more successful it will be.

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice.

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.

Real Madrid have to be at their best in every single training session and every single game.

I don't think about anything other than focusing at Real Madrid.

Real Madrid approach each match and each competition with the idea of winning it.

I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

I find it very hard to be disciplined. But working on something is a real reason to test yourself and go for it all the way.

It's real time intensive so there's not much time for goofing around, but we are really close and we have a good time with each other. It's a great group.

When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.

There's no better girlfriend than your own work, because when it goes away, you realise how important it is.

As you get older, you know what you're good at and you know what you're not so good at. Your ego comes out of it, and then you realise you can't play every game, there'll be certain games where you won't be so affected... so you've just got to concentrate on what you are.

I realise now that a lot of the things I was doing weren't helping me to get to the goal I want to achieve - to become the champion of the world.

As you get older, you realise you can't worry about mistakes; you just worry about playing, and I've been doing that.

When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

When I would meditate, I realised I could master my mind.

My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.

I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.

When I realised that TV would be my playground, I decided to be content with what I had. I gave it my all.