When you have a big lead, you relax and don't concentrate as much.
You may have heard the saying, 'When you're in love, smoke gets in your eyes.' Well when you're talking, smoke gets in your eyes and ears. Once you're on a roll, it's very easy to not notice that you've worn out your welcome.
There's always something that draws you away from the original script.
That's the name of the game ... pleasing the customer. If we ever lose sight of that fact, we've lost the ball game.
It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.
I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.
Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.
The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.
That's the most terrible mistake you can make: to relax. It's difficult to become a champion, but it's more difficult to maintain it for many years because you're getting too comfortable.
If you start to believe the hype about yourself, then you start to lose the bigger picture, and your focus is in the wrong place.
No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.
The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.
If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life.
It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.
Some guys lose their focus. They get caught up in the business deals or the endorsements, and they lose their focus. For me, it's always about football. I've never lost sight of what's making all these other things happen.
When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers.
I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.
I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.
