Quotes About Focus

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

When I have a nice rhythm going, and I have my toss in the right spot, when everything is kind of working how it's supposed to be, I think it's just really easy, you know, and I don't have to overthink on it.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

We shouldn't all be fixated just on what's not available. We should take a step back and look at the total that's available, because there's a mountain of information about us.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

If you can get your life down to one minute at a time, you don't miss anything. You have total abundance of information and material.

eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.

Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.

I've found I get big things done when I'm on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It's a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the 'do not disturb' on the phone and door for a week.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

When I'm away from cricket I switch off totally. Otherwise I would never be able to keep that same hunger.

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

You've got all that 130 km. of being totally focused, and as soon as you cross the line, it takes a few seconds to realise what's happened.

I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.

at some point, we end up shifting focus to the freak show on the fringes of the story. And everybody loves a freak show. Then we start reporting the freak shows, even when there's no real story attached.

Somewhere in the world someone is training harder than you. When you face him, who will live?