Quotes About Focus

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

I know that the hard work got me here. And the day I stop working hard, this can all go away.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have to put in hard work.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

I'm a workaholic. I work and work and work.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you.

Astronomers, like burglars and jazz musicians, operate best at night.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

Anything can happen with hard work and dedication

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.

There's nothing you've ever been successful at that you didn't work on every day.

Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.