Gary Oldman Quotes

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.

If your feet are in Fresno, Calif., that's where your head needs to be. That's where your mind needs to be. You don't need to be thinking about anything else other than the next game you're going to play.

When I play my match, everything else is completely not in my mind anymore.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

I just have to play my best game. Not think about anything else - that is the only concern I have and that we should all have.

The F-word here is focus.

I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.