Quotes About Focus

in the centre of six hundred stares and whispers

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

Ambition without direction is like milk without a cup.

In World Series, everything is a bit slower than F1. But each time I sit in the car, whether it is World Series or F1, once I am in the cockpit, I am mentally prepared for what the car is. I don't have to physically drive it to remember what it is doing.

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.

We don't just say this every spring training - 'Playoffs, World Series.' You've got to do it.

My No. 1 thing is to win a World Series. The rest comes as it comes.

It's weird coming into a game in the later innings, in a World Series game.

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

If you're going to be world-class, you have to focus.

While their competition is asleep, world-class leaders are up - and they're not watching the news or reading the paper. They are thinking, planning and practicing.

The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.

Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance.

You have to get yourself right for the Worlds. If you can't get yourself right for that you shouldn't be playing.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

Every year, I think of Worlds as the big meet, but now, it's the Olympics. I'm blessed to even have the opportunity to think about it and work for it.

I am on a fat-free diet for most of the year, but before 'the worlds,' I tend to relax on the diet a bit to concentrate on darts.

I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

When I've trained as hard as I possibly can through training camp and I come to the end, where my body is worn out and I'm tired, I know I'm ready to peak.

I was always worried about things but I focused on finding happiness.

There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short.

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.