Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.
You've got a job to do, and because you've got a job to do, you've got to focus on that, so you don't have time for personal considerations.
The golf ball has no sense at all, which is why it has to be given stern lectures constantly, especially during the act of putting.
I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.
I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.
In the Premier League, you don't have one second to breathe - you have to be on it from the first minute. If you lose focus - just for a few seconds - the game will pass you by. It's 100 miles an hour.
In normal life, we are all sweet and not vamp. So, to play a villain a lot of focus is required.
The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.
I have been bowling at the death sometimes. You need to focus. You know if you miss your target, you will go for a boundary, but it's also good because it makes you a really good bowler. You practise hard, and you try to bowl in one area most of the time.
If I have a clear spot in my schedule, I like to tackle the heavy scenes that require the heightened emotion and focus of a long writing session. Otherwise, I have daily obligations that can't be ignored.
Sometimes you have faced no shots during 90 minutes, and in minute 91, there is a shot. You always need to be focused, concentrated, and this is what makes you tired, being so focused.
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
