You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
Innovation means saying 'no' to a thousand things.
On the personal side, I was rock climbing and taking pictures with my friends. We took all sorts of portrait and action pictures, and I was thinking at the time that these are inherently difficult to focus correctly.
Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
Stop focusing on what you cant do, focus on what God can do.
When I shoot, I'm square with the rim.
I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.
Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.
Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds.
Looking through the camera lens reduces noise; as humans we see a million shapes, colours and textures. What the lens does, what art does in general, is get rid of all the noise. It hones in and isolates the qualities of a scene.
It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.
I don't really know how to work a camera.
I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.
I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.
I think in the long term, you make money with focusing on the sport.
My dad's helped me a lot as a player, encouraged me in all the right ways, kept me focussing on the right lines.
What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.
But when you are focused on your job, if you know you have given your very best, no matter where you finished, then that is great.
Once I committed to acting, this has been it.
Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
