Quotes About Focus

I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.

Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.

If you plan your work, you will not find yourself standing on the corner wondering where to go next.

I work virtually every waking hour.

I've learned... That the less time I have to work with, the more things I get done.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

The secret is planning your work and working your plan. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you arrive? You can't stumble upon your destination.

So little time and so little to do.

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work.

The principal form that the work of love takes is attention. When we love another person we give him or her our attention; we attend to that person's growth.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion.

I think a performer should do his work and then shut up.

Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.