Quotes About Concentration

That's the hardest part of the game. You've got to stay focused. With golf, make a mistake and you get another shot straight away; but with snooker you could be five minutes before you get another chance.

We've got to be right mentally - to stay focused and not get carried away if results go our way.

To play a match between Boca and River in Madrid, it's weird. But as a player, it is important to stay focused on the match.

We have to stay focused on every possession.

I need to stay focused and concentrate on the little things I need to do to improve my game.

I have always stayed focused, working to the fullest.

It's all about mentally staying in the moment and not losing concentration and trying to back up every day.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

Staying present in a high-pressure situation where you have so much coming at you is gold.

When I'm on really tough golf courses, I feel like I'm more focused because I'm really trying to hit the ball to a certain spot, instead of, a lot of times, when I struggle sometimes is just staying mentally focused on every shot.

As long as I'm communicating and staying in the game, my concentration is always going to be there.

I like working on the pitch, staying focused.

I think the reason I've been successful at this point is staying focused on what was in front of me.

Staying focused is key. You have to focus on your opponent and make sure you're training right so your body and mind are ready.

I've always been really good at staying in the moment my whole career. I just stay within myself.

At Ford, one of the behaviors is you listen, and you don't have side conversations during the meeting. It's just so important everybody stays focused.

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Clarity affords focus.

Well-honed attention—as evidenced in trackers, mindfulness practitioners, athletes, hunters, artists, writers, ornithologists, and more—is something quite different. It can be focused narrowly or distributed across the entire visual field at will. Its focus can be internal (on the contents of mind) or external, and it can be sustained for long periods. It is penetrating, quick, and efficient, picking up signals that are altogether unseen by the untrained eye.

We think too many thoughts at once, most of them the same thoughts we had yesterday and the day before. We are impatient with life, and anxious.

Rushing had become so much of a habit that I was amazed at the amount of concentration it took to work slowly on purpose.