Quotes About Focus

I think I'm caught up in playing in New York. Here, my mind is cluttered worrying about things.

When I am playing my best, I am not worrying about a whole lot.

I love the whole mess of family life. I love having the focus elsewhere and worrying about the kids as opposed to myself. I love both the chaos and the structure that family brings.

I don't live my life and go out there really worrying about what people say.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Stop looking for the 'right' career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what's available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.

The more I thought to myself, 'Are my thoughts right, am I being obedient enough?' the worse it was... one of the most painful things you can experience in life is not so much physical pain, but being self-occupied. Because to the extent you are self-occupied, that's the extent you will be in pain.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

There is nothing worse than being mediocre at a whole bunch of different things.

Repeatedly opening the oven - or worse, taking out the turkey to baste it - slows down the momentum of cooking.

Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.

You never hold back. If I turn up to the track and feel cautious or not committed, I turn around and go home. If you don't have that full commitment when you're pedaling into a 40-foot jump, there's not much room for error, and you'll come off worse.

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don't see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.

To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn. Math is just the worst. To this day, I can't concentrate on it. People always say, 'You should have tried harder.' But actually, I cheated a lot because I could not sit and do homework.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.

Shooters shoot. The worst thing a shooter can do is think. That's the best defense out there.

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.