Quotes About Concentration

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

I remember playing a Twenty20 game in Australia in 2007 and Matthew Hayden smacked one back at me. My head goes down as I follow through and as I looked up I just saw this white flash pass about an inch from the side of my head. If it had been a touch straighter I would not have had time to react and who knows what could have happened.

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.

I don't think about anything other than focusing at Real Madrid.

I remember hitting the ball, and I didn't even realise where it went, and then I turned over, and I see the official bending down holding his eye.

I went through a phase of deep introspection. I realised that while doing films back to back, I was getting burnt out and not concentrating on quality. I wasn't preparing for my role and was working like a machine. When I saw the result on the big screen, I felt that the work I'd done was horrible.

As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.

My greatest asset now is my focus.

Music is a big thing for me when I'm shooting. It gets me in a groove.

Paying attention to my breath makes me happy to be alive. And that really grounds me during a performance.

I have to do some mental gymnastics as an actor sometimes, to remember not to let certain things in.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

Not listening to what my wife tells me is my worst habit. I'm always losing my concentration.

When I'm driving, the fewer distractions there are, the better it is to focus on the job in hand.

Multitasking is a lie

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do." —John Carmack