Steve Martin Quotes

I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone.

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.

Channel your energy. Focus.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time.

I was fully immersed in the now as an athlete.

When I'm on set, I do whatever I can to find my focus.

Competition is an easy way to get into flow.

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.

I don't have time to be negative.

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

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

It sometimes happens that you come out of a scene, and you don't even know what happened. It's like you're in the zone.

I've been so in the zone, you don't know where you are or where you're at.

When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else. The brain gets out of the way. Your body just does what it knows how to do, and it's just... it's like a religion.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

It’s not about how much you sleep. It’s what you do while you’re awake.

Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.