Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we’d be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so we couldn’t concentrate.
We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
In the U.S. I can concentrate all the time on playing tennis, doing my training and all the important stuff.
You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can’t do both.
I did what I always wanted to do. Wrestling. – conquered that. Can’t physically do it anymore. So now what? Maybe I’ll paint. Maybe I’ll write another book. Yeah, I’ll try this acting thing and now actually concentrate on it and try and get better at it and take classes and get coaching and give it a shot.
As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.
There were loads of managers who said, ‘You have to concentrate on being a winger because you have more potential there.’ But I was like, ‘You can say what you want, but I’m a midfielder, and I know what’s the best for me.’
I look at what’s in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.
Why is Caterpillar bad if we create a new job in India or China to receive U.S. exports? It makes no sense to me. We want to drive all the exports we can from the United States. We want to concentrate on all those consumers, outside contractors, customers outside the United States that we possibly can.
If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.
I must concentrate all my efforts in the attainment of freedom for my people.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
I listen to music to try and focus or concentrate on emotional characters, which is quite common among actors. It might seem cheesy, but I particularly listen to Coldplay because I’m moved by their lyrics. But any music can help depending on the character and their mood.
I’ve always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
We live in a time of conflict – external and internal – when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger.
I want to concentrate on movies. Bollywood is my priority, but that doesn’t mean I will stop working on series. I want to do both.
The Lib-Dems are sidekicks. They were born to be sidekicks and that’s what they should concentrate on being.
But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.
People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.
In English films, they concentrate more on background scores and the music will be the main highlight of movie. When it comes to our local language, we have comedy, emotion, hero buildups, etc., and the music for each will be different from the other.
More than anything, praying just helps me to concentrate and let go of things that don’t matter in that moment. It gives me peace knowing I’m in good hands.
If you concentrate on the rear mirror, you’ll crash and cause an accident.
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.
I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.
It is all about concentration, and the more games you play, the more you concentrate.
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.
If you paid me $2 million, I’m sure I could lose my belly. But I don’t get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That’s what I concentrate on.
El Perro del Mar sort of accompanied my time at ‘SNL.’ To concentrate and focus, I would play the bass to one of her songs from her third album.
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful – just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
Nothing focuses your mind quite like flying a jet. That’s one reason NASA requires that astronauts fly T-38s: it forces us to concentrate and prioritize in some of the same ways we need to in a rocket ship.
You put your personal stuff away and concentrate on the team and help out.
Usually, I concentrate on work for a certain time, and finish when I clear a standard I set myself. But with ‘Mononoke,’ the production was so drawn out, it took forever to finish to my satisfaction.
You have to tailor yourself to everybody. Sometimes people need a firmer hand; some people you can have a laugh with, and they concentrate more. What they needed was more certainty about the future of the company.
The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I’ll sit back and listen to it, and I’ll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
My mind became so frazzled by the end of the 1974 season that I decided the thing to do was give up playing for England and concentrate on Yorkshire. I felt the only way to succeed was to captain and play every match for Yorkshire.
Don’t give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don’t really concentrate on it.
There’s this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you’re over-thinking the songwriting process. There’s no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that’s going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.
When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don’t find something interesting, I can’t concentrate.
The more we allow Republicans to concentrate the lion’s share of wealth in the hands of a few, the more power these wealthy few will have. And they will use this power to continue rewriting the rules of both our economy and our political system in their favor.
It’s better to be incognito because otherwise everyone is talking to you because they know you – and you can’t concentrate on the training because everyone is talking to you.
I think I’m okay; I got a pretty good shot when I concentrate. I like pool.
Being closeted often put me in situations where I couldn’t concentrate or even think straight.
I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.
Most blues guitar players don’t concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge – the bridge doesn’t exist. They go straight for the solo.
We want, as the Saudi people, to enjoy the coming days and concentrate on developing our society and developing ourselves as individuals and families while retaining our religion and customs.
Nicol has great potential and there is a huge gap between her and the rest of the juniors. She needs to concentrate full time on the professional circuit from now on and it is the only way for her to realize her potential.
There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it’s a flighty thing at best.
Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.
I’m supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.
I think everybody’s got different methods of working which suit the particular individual. Mine is to sort of play the part, and give 100%, to concentrate and focus on it while I’m actually working, but then leave it behind until the next day.
Give children healthy food and they behave better at school, concentrate more in class and perform better in exams.
An election is supposed to be about our whole country – we can’t just concentrate on those areas where people, for the most part, already agree with us.
Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day’s end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.
