Henri Matisse Quotes

I pray a lot and it has helped me throughout my whole career to stay calm and focused.

Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.

Assume the attitude of prayer, and in time, the attitude will become prayer.

When I'm in the movie, I'm entirely in the movie. When I'm on the set, I'm 200 per cent there; when I'm at home, I'm 200 per cent at home.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

As long as I'm communicating and staying in the game, my concentration is always going to be there.

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

If you focus on what's wonderful, that's where the energy will go.

I'm locked in no matter what I'm doing. If it's a competition, I'm locked in.

When I'm relaxed, I play my best tennis.

You have to be focused all the time.

You have to be completely there in every game, and as soon as you drop your level even one per cent, you concede goals.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

The whole point is to discipline the mind.

Productivity is less about what you do with your time. And more about how you run your mind.