Quotes About Concentration

When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore.

In the match, I just try to focus what I have to do. I try not to think too much about outside things.

Once you are on court, everything is different. I focus on the match.

The calmest part of my day is right before a match.

It's not easy to focus in practice when you don't have any matches coming up.

The less I think about meals and everything else, the more I can focus on my sport, and the better I play.

Meditation isn't necessarily this magical experience where we don't ever have thoughts.

I think I got to the point where a lot of runners end up: You plan another race so you have something to focus on and that's what I do - I focus.

When I come to the arena, my mind is on basketball, not thinking I'm walking a runway.

I believe when you rush your work, you're not thinking about what you're doing. That's when you make mistakes.

If I am satisfied with the way I have bowled, I do not think much about other things.

It doesn't matter whether you move your feet or not; if your head is still and body is in balance, you can score lots of runs. This I learned from Tendulkar.

When you're a scorer, you are thinking about scoring, and everything comes easy.

A lot of the time, it's hard to put your thoughts into what you're watching when someone is screaming in your headset.

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life.

If we're losing, I probably won't be talking as much. I'll probably be more talking to my pads.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

My head works a little faster than people around me sometimes and it can be quite painful. It was a problem for me in school because I couldn't sit down long enough. I couldn't concentrate. So I didn't go to classes very much.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

With chess it was almost this palpable electricity that I felt. You're totally in control of your own fate. There's no luck factor. It's you and the pieces.

Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in order to focus only on their goal. Others have a giant lens, and they take in the whole panorama. I was that pinhole kind of person.