Quotes About Concentration

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.

Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds.

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall!

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

When that music comes on, I just block everything around me out.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

My mind is in another planet behind the blocks. Sometimes I'm up in the blocks, and I'm like, 'What am I doing here?' I'm just not trying to think too much.

I'm bloody awful at multi-tasking.

When you act against a blue screen, you have to imagine what's not there.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

My biggest strength is I never look at the batsman's name when bowling.

Boxing is always serious.

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

In other sports, you get to breathe if you make a mistake.

As a batter, I just try to put myself in a bubble, not letting anything in from the outside, looking only at how many runs I can score.

When you're in there getting buckets, you're not really paying attention to who's there. You're just doing your thing.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.

Adrenaline is a huge deal. All of a sudden you start hitting the golf ball a little bit farther. You learn to stay within yourself and what you have to do to calm yourself down and stay within your game plan.

You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'

Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.