Quotes About Focus

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.

Instead of doing thousands of dives, I am focusing on quality, and I'm listening to my body more.

I've fought in front of thousands of people and never responded to the crowd. I got there, did my job, and left.

You can't sustain a high level of intense activity with thousands of people forever. It has to be for a specific objective.

Usually, I really only look at any one particular album at a time when I'm making it. I've never really sat and looked at the journey through all of my albums to see if I could find a thread through them.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

Normally my films have a single thread of an emotion, an insight or one single belief, and then I turn the entire story and build it around that.

If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.

There's a big focus in the security industry on incredibly sophisticated attacks and on very sophisticated threat actors.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

Less about politics, 'The Path to 9/11' focused on the emergence of radical Islamic terror as a clear and present American threat.

So one of the things I want to focus on is how we can show how taking on private financing is taking on this fundamental democratic threat.

I got to go out there and catch the ball, be more of a deep threat.

The one thing you can't do is get carried away with that pace and bounce. There's a temptation to charge in and just slam the ball into the pitch and you can end up bowling too short. You still have to bowl the right length so that you threaten to take wickets.

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality.

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

There are a lot of threats out there. Amazon can enter the travel market. Google could enter the accommodation space. But that is not something that we actively focus on.

I don't think I've been bored, ever. I've always been working on two or three things at a time; whether it was in the early days, or whatever, I was always working on something.

For basically three years, I was doing 'Catfish' and 'We Are Your Friends' at the same time - it was like straddling two very long-term creative marriages. And when you're in a long-term creative commitment, you tend to daydream and fantasize about smaller creative flings that you want to have.

I don't miss a three-month training camp. I don't miss fight week. But I do miss being the baddest man on the planet.

Ten-year plan? No, three-year plan! I'm in a hurry.