Focus Quotes

"My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you’ll win…channel your energy. Focus."

- Carl Lewis

"It isn’t where you came from. It's where you're going that counts."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"God is in the details"

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"The details are not the details. They make the design."

- Charles Eames

"God is in the details."

- Mies van der Rohe

"Practice safe design: Use a concept."

- Petrula Vrontikis

"In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose."

- Augustus W. N. Pugin

"I would rather see the behavior of one white rat observed carefully from the moment of birth until death than to see a large volume of accurate statistical data on how 2,000 rats learned to open a puzzle box."

- John B. Watson

"Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception."

- Kurt Lewin

"The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything."

- Warren Buffett

"It’s not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward."

- Dan Quinn

"You can't live in the past. You keep moving forward."

- Mark Ingram II

"It seems like people want to blame me for everything. Whenever any issue arises, I'm said to have been involved even if I've had nothing to do with it. That's why I always focus on what I know, which is playing football, and try to be very careful with what I say because people always try and twist things."

- Lionel Messi

"I never think about the record. I only think about winning the match"

- Lionel Messi

"Whether it’s a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game—I play the same. I’m always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win."

- Lionel Messi

"I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don’t think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only harms you to worry about those things."

- Lionel Messi

"When I’m in the car on the way to training, I always drive as calmly as possible. I enjoy the drive, actually. It’s nice to have that bit of time before training to relax, alone with my thoughts. It’s the same before a game. I always go the same route, too, because it helps me concentrate."

- Lionel Messi

"When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn’t look back. He has to eat."

- Robert Cheruiyot

"When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt."

- Henry J. Kaiser

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser like force."

- Bruce Lee

"Tuesday is the day to focus on what’s ahead and not what’s behind."

""Coffee is my silent ally during long nights of study and work, keeping me company and keeping my mind awake.""

"Focus and win"

"Your future needs you. Your past doesn’t."

"Tips on how to talk to someone when they’re gaming: don’t."

"I can’t hear you. I’m gaming."

"I paused my game to be here."

"Mind your things"

"Every great move must be planned, every plan must be calculated."