Quotes About Focus

It's a weird place to be in because my dreams in life have surpassed what I could have ever imagined. I just hope I can continue to write stand-up, but I would say my big dream is to build an amazing family. It's so boring and cheesy, but that's my focus.

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.

Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

For the two or three weeks you work on an episode, you totally immerse yourself.

I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.

I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete.

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.

If I'm really immersed in a story, I try to finish it in a few days. If it's a longer work, then it would take a few months.

I just think that for a lot of people - not to take the focus off of myself - that feeling of imminent dread, like a cloak of black dust, was always around me.

When I did 'Immunity,' even though I did a film score at the beginning and also at the end, I was left uninterrupted during the middle bit. I got a good year of just writing and focusing. That, to me, is when I make the best stuff.

My focus is on the financial sector, on getting credit going, getting lending flowing. I can't imagine anything that would have a bigger stimulative impact.

I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

I think it's imperative to keep your focus on why you're in school. You're in school to get an education.

People say I'm cold, that I'm impersonal on the court. Well, let me tell you, it's blood and guts out there.

Independent of the strength implications, baseball, like most athletic events, is a game of feeling capable of handling the current challenge.

It wasn't until later in my career that I really focused on the importance on making an entrance.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that's where all the joy came from as well.

I'm not a big watcher of myself. You start looking at things you shouldn't be looking at that have nothing to do with anything of importance.