Quotes About Focus

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

You can't go forward and backwards at the same time.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Seriously, you tell me, if you aim at something, and then hit it time and time again, was it luck or did you just do what you were trying to do?

'The 25th Hour' came out of the decision - a really very conscious decision - that I needed a story set within a compressed time frame because that would help focus the story.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

When it comes to time management, I talk a lot more about energy management. I try to give people 100% of my energy even if I'm giving them very little of my time.

Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.

Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of work accomplished, while others appear to be busy but never actually produce results? Time management is the key to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Time management is really important.

Time management is really key for me.

'Power' came in August. February 2014, 'Empire' ended. That whole time, I was like, 'You know what, let me just take a break from this and focus on music' so in that time period, I did my whole EP. Got the single 'Lotto.'

While in the middle of writing a book, I have a hard time reading other books for pleasure.

When you're in a play like 'Kean,' you can't think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.

Well the first record is something that you just put so much into. And the second record, people always talk about the sophomore jinx and everything, but I was still able to get through it and still focus on what I needed to do and make timeless music.

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.

There are times when being scandalous or provocative can help bring focus to issues of major concern.

You do have to fight different when you might have to fight three times in one night. I really like fighting just one time a night, this lets you do more things.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

I always play every game in my mind before it begins. A lot of times in a game, a play will happen, and it will feel like deja vu, like I've seen the play happen before in my mind.

In some times of the game, you have to be more simple.

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?

You don't have to swing hard to hit a home run. If you got the timing, it'll go.