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Quotes About Focus

There is a very fine line between relentless and stupid," Win said. "Try to stay on the right side of it.
~ Harlan Coben
The media, an entity with the collective attention span of a Twinkie-filled two-year-old, immediately focused on this shiny new toy, kicking the old one under the bed. Carlson
~ Harlan Coben
I refuse to offer hints.' Myron ran episodes through his mind. On the court the umpire announced, 'Time.' The ninety-second commercial break was over. The players rose. Myron couldn't swear to it, but he thought he saw Henry blink.
~ Harlan Coben
Each writer had a bedroom in the main house and a shack or "work cottage" in which to write. We all met up for dinner at night. That was it. There was no Internet, no TV, no phones, yes lights, but no motorcar, not a single luxury.
~ Harlan Coben
Just do the job, move on, don't leave any tracks. The rest was flotsam and jetsam.
~ Harlan Coben
As Myron dashed back and forth in the wave of basketball action, a thought sneaked in through the back door of his brain. The thought stayed on the fringes, hiding behind a couch, popping into view every once in a while before ducking back down again. You can do this, the thought taunted. You can play with them. Myron
~ Harlan Coben
Norm looked out over the court. The workers involved in the [model] shoot darted about like trapped particles under sudden heat.
~ Harlan Coben
Worry about what you can control. If you can't control it, let it go.
~ Harlan Coben
Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
~ Laura Marano
I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.
~ Jill Biden
Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.
~ Dev Hynes
One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.
~ Sanjay Kumar
Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.
~ Shelley Duvall
I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
~ Omar Sharif
Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.
~ Ben Shahn
Like, at the gym, I don't touch my phone.
~ Noah Centineo
I have a goal to be the best player every time I touch that floor. Just be the best me.
~ Paul George
I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
~ James Lipton
I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.
~ Nolan Bushnell
Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
~ LaDainian Tomlinson
During the game, you don't really notice how many guys have touched the ball because you're just focusing on where you need to be.
~ Christian Eriksen
With the quarterback position, because you're touching the ball every single snap, you want to make a play and you just have to guard against that. It's about making the plays that come to you, not necessarily chasing after plays.
~ Doug Pederson
Everyone has a really short attention span nowadays with social media, our phones. Even me - I can't go without touching my phone every five minutes.
~ Alexa Bliss
I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.
~ Pablo Sandoval