Quotes About Focus

Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.

Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.

You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.

When I am totally race fit, I don't worry about breathing or technique - they take care of themselves.

We can't worry about who we don't have. We have to go into these games with the guys we have.

I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

You just don't have the time to worry about what others are doing. You just want to take care of your own business. You are focused on that tee shot on the 10th tee and making it to the finish line. It's one of the most stressful moments in professional golf, but you have worked so hard to get to that point, that it really is fun.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Part of leaving your legacy is not worrying what everyone is saying about it.

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

It wasn't until I stopped worrying about my own validation and finally refocused my energy on things I could actually change that I finally grew as a person and as a professional.

Sometimes people will sue me to make an example of me but I don't sit home worrying about it; I'm too busy working.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

So much of what we do with our lives is worrying about the things we've done or the things we want to do instead of just being present in the now.

I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.

I never think of who's in the competition. I never let myself get in that frame of mind, worrying about who I'm against.

I am a better person when I am writing, and I am probably a better mother because I can focus all that laser attention on these characters rather than worrying about my kids.