Quotes About Focus

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

too often "managements 'navel gaze' and look for problems or solutions only within their own organization."86 A viable strategic plan needs to focus first on the external world to determine what to do before focusing inward on how to do it.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

A day working hard on a project I care about is a day well spent. Find something you love. Do it well. Do it a lot.

Let me explain something about survival. You do not worry about the third or fourth stepping stone until you have successfully traversed the first and second. Anything beyond them is a diversion of energies away from the immediate moment.

There's a lot of obsession about people's personal ambitions.

Every team and club has its own personal goals and objectives, and I'm only concerned about mine.

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

I don't want to mix my work and personal life. They should be kept separate.

If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

If I'm not fighting for a good reason, then your personal life starts to get messy, and it's like, 'What am I doing this for?'

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.

I believe in hard work. So that's not changed. And my love for cinema is something I was born with. But, personally, I am more in control of my emotions and because my focus is work, personal life is all about family and friends and my two dogs.

I have no personal life.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.

I don't want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don't want people who take the focus away from the movie and the ideas behind the movie.

I've always had lots of energy; it's just been about channelling it in the right way. I know I can be annoying, but that's just my way and hopefully more people than not like my personality.

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration.

If you're shooting a really serious, dramatic scene, personally I wouldn't want to look at the camera.