Quotes About Focus

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

There is nothing more important than hard work.

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out."

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Hating hard work can get to be such an obsession that you won't let it pile up.

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.

If you have no agenda of your own, life will work according to its agenda. Your personal agenda is taking you further and further away from that.

With hard work and focus dreams do come true.

You will never work through writer's block if you walk away from your typewriter. That will only make it easier to walk away the next time.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

I'm a grinder....I've never taken more than a week off in my adult life. I truly believe work is a virtue, it gives you purpose.

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

I think we should do meditation and yoga at work.