Quotes About Concentration

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

When I'm at the plate, I'm not thinking about what I'm trying to do with the bat - I'm thinking about what the pitcher is trying to do with the ball.

It takes every ounce of my concentration and focus every night to be in character, to sing in good voice, to not fall off the platform. I use my peripheral vision more than I have ever used it in my life.

At the end of the day, I play baseball, and I don't let anything else get in my head.

A lot of marathon runners access flow state. That's why it's so addictive: because they just get into this state where they're just completely one - they are in complete oneness. That's what happens to me when I play music and, I suppose, a lot of other people, too, which is why we do it.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Goalkeeping is so mental you've got to be focused all the time. You come off the pitch drained in a different way to an outfield player. You'd probably be more mentally drained.

I play along myself, even though I can't help the player. So I can't say what I think the answer might be. But I'll be playing in my head, while they are.

I feel I can concentrate a bit more on playing darts now people are just seeing an equal playing field.

The season is a beast within itself. It's not the quickest race; it's a marathon. In the playoffs - if you're fortunate enough to make the playoffs - that's more like a dash. You have to concentrate on one opponent. When they're done, you have to concentrate on another one.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

No one can remember more than three points.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

I have a very competent case of ADD.

Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.