Focus On Present Quotes

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.

You can't get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn't help you.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

When you make the present moment, instead of past and future, the focal point of your life, your ability to enjoy what you do and with it the quality of your life increases dramatically.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

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.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

It is an old cliche but it is game by game for me.

I don't like talking past the next game. It's never served me right in the past.

Nothing changes if we spend all our time worrying about the teams above us, so all we can do is win our next match.

Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.

I find its attention to living this life rather than the next one exhilarating because I think even independently of Judaism that that's the right way to go about life.

I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.