Quotes About Focus

Our prep's not going to be any different. It will be optional batting practice like there was today. I don't want any more work. I don't want extra study.

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.

Did think you were here to kill time listening to Christian music until you go to heaven? We've got work to do.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

The quiet people just do their work.

You don't think I work 14 hours a day right now?! I mean, I still put in the hours, I still do the work.

Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

I've never really resented hard work because I've always liked it. Up every morning for roadwork. Going to the gymnasium every day at 12 o'clock. I never change my pattern.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.

Focused, hard work is the real key to success.

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.