Quotes About Focus

For singers and drummers, you've really gotta have your chops together just to do a rehearsal.

I used to learn my lines on the toilet, in the car, at dinner.

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.

When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.

It is my hope that Pope Francis realizes his time is better spent focusing on matters like religious tolerance and the sanctity of all life.

Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.

The game has been great to me. The Steelers have been great to me, and I think things will work out and take its toll. But I'm just singularly focused on being a great player, being here around the guys and my teammates, and representing my family.

One enemy at the time.

The focus is on tearing out dysfunction and blight, instead of finding existing strengths and building on what people value and what is working well.

Rather than console them, courageously face the distraction; reward your puppy for following your lead.

Until your puppy learns a strong Stay

Forget the past and live the present hour.

I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.

Details aren't automatically interesting.

He foll0wed her as she crossed to the four-station apparatus. His attention was glued to her butt the whole way. realizing what he was doing, he snapped his gaze away and checked to make sure no one had noticed. Nope. They were all too busy staring at Jamie's butt.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

She said people found running to something easier than running from something.

I wonder-maybe the key is balance. Maybe it's about living in the moment while still keeping your eye on the big picture-on all the pictures.

At home, it was part of my life that Ivo was always watching me, unblinking, the slits of his pupils expanding and contracting as a cat's do when it considers whether or not to pounce on its prey.

I was whole again, clear-headed, vital and focused in a way I hadn't been since I was first learning magic, first learning to be free.

What happened was I hit the cold place inside my head, the place where I'd been when I killed people for a living, the place especially where I ended up when a job looked like it was going bad. I can't describe it so it makes sense. It's really cold and really clear and nothing in the world matters except not fucking up the job-in this case, getting my damn brother on board this ship because it was what he'd said he wanted.

He'd learned the key thing about any serious conversation with Felix, which was that you couldn't let him distract you.

To work in silence and with all one's heart, that is the writer's lot; he is the only artist who must be solitary and yet needs the widest outlook on the world.