Focused Mindset Quotes

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

When it comes down to playoff basketball, it's attention to detail.

You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dali spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn't know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

We're focused on ourselves and winning our games and handling our business. We'll let the chips fall in place.

The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.

Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.

Don't talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.

Even though the city of Memphis and this organization has welcomed me with open arms, I play every game like it's my last. Play as hard as I possibly can. Been no different my whole career.

The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

Everything I've been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

I'm always focused and enjoying the journey because this life is meant for savoring every goal reached and striving for more.

I know what I want! And I just go for it.

Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

What people see on court is another side of me; it's not me.

Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.