Concentration quotes

“I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it.”
Michael Sheen

“You can't think about how people will perceive you or your character. All you can do is focus on your work. The rest is up to the universe.”
Robert Patrick

“You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it.”
Al Pacino - Tony D'Amato

“I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.”
Jim Caviezel

“For the most part, it's about keeping the same people around you - people who really care about your well-being - they keep you focused.”
Jessie T. Usher

“- Josh: Do you think that there is a masochistic part of you that is playing out this particular drama to avoid the work you actually need to be doing?
- Christian: What work do I need to be doing, Josh, exactly?
- Josh: Well, I don’t know, your prospectus, maybe, your PhD?
- Christian: Wow, okay, thanks for the psychoanalysis.
- Mark: It’s not...” (continue)(continue reading)
William Jackson Harper - Josh
Jack Reynor - Christian
Will Poulter - Mark

“When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about doing it in a long, roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash...” (continue)(continue reading)
Forest Whitaker - Ghost Dog

“Women weaken legs.”
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“It's very scary when you run out of distractions.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe

“- Daniel: [on breaking six slabs of ice] Are you crazy? I'm not going to break through that! That guy was twice my size and he only broke through two! What do you expect me to do?!
- Miyagi: Focus.
- Daniel: And what are you going to do?
- Miyagi: Pray.”
Ralph Macchio - Daniel
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“The most beautiful thing of all is the complete stillness of an audience so intent that it hardly breathes.”
Charles Laughton

“Thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I want you to concentrate. Failure is not an option.”

Beth Grant - Kitty Farmer

“Those sounds come from inside, not outside. Then only when you're concentrating, when you believe strongly in something.”

Eric Portman - Thomas Colpeper, JP

“The clouded mind sees nothing.”
Woon Young Park - Tibetan Kidnapper

“I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly

“Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.”
Donal Logue

“I could not concentrate on what this old man was saying.”

Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat

“I can't concentrate on anything you're saying until you cover your junk.”

Anna Kendrick - Beca

“Just reach deep down and let the scary out!”
John Goodman - Sullivan

“- Angelo Ruggiero: Galione, you always snort on a hit?
- Ralph Galione: Sharpens my concentration.
- John Gotti: Good, start concentration!”
Vincent Pastore - Angelo Ruggiero
Michael A. Miranda - Ralph Galione
Armand Assante - John Gotti

“- Tibby: What is she doing here?
- Bailey: She's thinking.
- Tibby: I think she's trying to grow a brain, that's what.”
Amber Tamblyn - Tibby
Jenna Boyd - Bailey

“- Carson: I need to focus, and that means no cute guys. Right now, beating the Jets is my top priority.
- Aeysha: Good, and you're doing the right thing.
- Carson: I know...
- Aeysha: So, can I have him?”
Ashley Benson - Carson
Anniese Taylor Dendy - Aeysha

“- Sanka Coffie: Hey! Hey! What you doin'?
- Derice Bannock: This is what the Swiss do to psyche themselves up!
- Sanka Coffie: They also make them little pocket knives too, but I don't see you doing that!”

Doug E. Doug - Sanka Coffie
Leon - Derice Bannock