William Butler Yeats Quotes

The more you can keep your action and your mind and the ball you are delivering as simple as you can nothing can go wrong.

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

I try to stay focused.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Running for me has always been a great place to get away. It's a great stress reliever for me. It's great if I need to be working on something in my mind, whether it's things I need to be memorizing or thinking about, or I have some presentation coming up.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

You have to stay very basic. You have to stay very focused. You have to stay very disciplined.

I'm able to think more clearly when I don't have clutter and stuff around.

My objective with strategy is to be very repetitive, to be somewhat boring, to allow people to coalesce behind a common direction.

The F-word here is focus.

Really focusing on what I have to do right now... no matter what role I'm playing - it alleviates everything around me and makes everything a lot more simple.

Meditation helps me see things clearer. When things are going fast, it helps me slow them down.

Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.

I don't take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.

The mind has to be right and the work has to match the mind.

If you let yourself believe that you are unsure about what you're doing, then the game is fast. But if you go out there and you're confident and have an idea of what you're supposed to do, then the game slows down for you.

I like the hypnosis. Nothing too deep - just enough to keep me clearer and more focused.

My message is always very, very clear: I'm very concentrated on the game.

I'm proud of the fact that I can just focus on the bullseye and go. Thank God, I don't have to worry about distractions or veering off course because my focus is very defined. I'm proud of that.

It's all about mentally staying in the moment and not losing concentration and trying to back up every day.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.