Sean Longstaff Quotes

Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

Focus on what needs to be done that day. Don't think too far ahead. Once you start thinking too far ahead, you get distracted by things that don't matter on that day.

The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing.

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.

I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

You just got to be #patient, be focused, you know there are lots of distractions out there.

Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

I never think about the numbers. I've never played tennis for the money, because as long as I enjoy it, and I can achieve anything, then the money will come. I know that things will start coming up, many more people will want to start getting involved. But I just want to keep my head cool, and I want to leave (business) to the people who take care of business. I just go out and I just play tennis.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.