Quotes About Focus

I think one of the most important lessons that I've learned is to put your head down and work. Don't look at other people and compare yourself. Just do the work. Because when the opportunity is there, you have to be ready. Make sure your craft is refined and you're constantly working on it.

It's a goalkeeper's job. There's so many times you're doing nothing for 89, 90 minutes, and then there's a split-second moment. It's a different challenge to outfield players, who have a lot of physical challenges and battle. We have a lot of mental battles; it's about maintaining your focus, refining processes of what you do in a game.

I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.

All the issues you deal with get more complicated as you get older; it takes more focus to write songs that reflect what you've gone through.

Though it is important to reflect on where we've been and where we are - we must place most of our focus on where we are going.

I don't do a lot of reflecting. I'm usually about getting on with it.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Azam Khan has made me the focus of his campaign. I have for long been suffering his tongue-lash. It only reflects his state of mind. He does a lot of drama.

Hand-eye coordination and reflexes is something I work on more than anything.

I have to constantly work on my reflexes and hand-eye coordination. I do a lot of puzzles. I play chess.

Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

If you clear your mind, you can fill it with your character. If it is cluttered, if it is anxious, if you're thinking about your date, about your dinner, about filling your refrigerator, there's no room. There's no room for the character you're trying to build.

When I lived in Boston, I had an office that I rented because I found it wonderful to go away from my house to work: It was so quiet, and I couldn't go to the refrigerator or do the laundry.

We need to shift our focus from the debates about redistributing refugees within the E.U. and should concentrate more on external border protection.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

Our focus continues to be on having the Saints in Louisiana... We're trying to develop what we would regard as a new model for the Saints to operate in a rebuilt Louisiana.

I'm a player who always gives 100 percent, regardless of what's going on.

Regardless of whether I'm sitting on the bench or out there participating, I'm going to give my all whatever I'm doing.

U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.

When you really want something, regardless of what it is, you don't always have to have the fanciest gear or the latest technology, or the greatest, latest stuff.

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.