Quotes About Focus

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.

We abolished every order blank and every form of statistics that did not directly aid in the production of a car. We had been collecting tons of statistics because they were interesting. But statistics will not construct automobiles—so out they went.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Starting on time, with everything just right, and the surgical drapes placed in exactly the right way, the instruments tidily laid out, is an important way of calming surgical stage fright.

To the man with a hammer, it is said, all things look like nails. When brain surgeons look at brain scans they see things that they think require surgery and I am, alas, no exception.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

I do my best to limit the amount of compromise in my life so I have more time to do what I want. Not hanging out with many people really helps. I am not a people person and I spend a great deal of time on my own and in this environment, I get a lot done.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity; I have discipline; I have focus. And I know without any illusion where I come from and what I can go back to.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time. No such thing as down time. All you got is life time

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.