Quotes About Focus

Especially if you're a good receiver, nobody plays at all-the-way 100 percent.

I always to try block everything out, good or bad. I always hope to keep receiving blessings, to have faith, because you know, there's a time to block everything out and just work on your craft, work on everything that you desire to get, desire to want.

Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don't respond, we're putting the future of the middle class at risk.

My husband and I had recently been in a car accident, and I came out of that experience with more clarity about my career and the energy to continue to pursue it hard, no matter what the challenges.

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

That's how I've had success my whole life. That's the recipe for me, just locking in on the moment. But I start thinking about getting paid and all this other stuff, and my mind is not right. It makes it really tough to focus on what you've got to do.

If I had one piece of advice for people - if they are cooking from the Alinea cookbook, the Betty Crocker cookbook or the back of the box - read through the entire recipe first before reaching for any ingredients, and then read again and execute the directions.

Is very hard to find, like, a recipe to feel good fitness-wise, tennistically, mentally.

A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same.

Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.

Having an agent who had been through the process a million times and who could walk me through the process freed up a lot of mental space for me to just focus on the creative. I also worked with recipe testers, photographers, and assistants who were invaluable in creating a book that I'm truly proud of.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

This is Test cricket. Being positive is not far away from being reckless. For all that the sport has become more fast-flowing and entertaining, you still need batsmen whose first instinct is to be patient.

I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just determined to see if I could build a career for myself.

A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice.

I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.

We recognized that for our future, and for the way the customer was now shopping, we had to have one point of view. All roads lead back to the customer.

So many rich people, when they get into philanthropy, they have one thing they like, or several things they focus on. They pick a disease or a college or some kind of non-profit. They produce good results through that cause, but also they get recognized; there's some sort of monument to what they did.

That's what you want to do, is get recognized for accomplishments you've had on the field, not off the field. That's always my goal, to find ways to do that.

We hadn't met anyone else as ambitious as us. We immediately recognized each other's drive.

If we win, a lot of guys are going to be noticed. That's my main focus is winning at the end of the day. If guys get recognized, they get recognized. It's obviously a great deal individually, but I'm trying to win.

Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.