Quotes About Focus

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

I think it was the preparation and every thing Lombardi represented, you know, about hard work and that every game was important. So when you get to the real important games, you were ready to go.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

I'm not doing my work for constant success.

If I ignore my work, I start having anxiety attacks.

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

I work best inundated with things when it's like raining information.

Always keep your best work.

When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought.

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

I need to work on defensive play and being consistent.

I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.

Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.