Quotes About Focus

I really like to work a lot. It makes time go by fast.

I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.

I'm not into clubbing. I want to be known for my work.

I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

One must work, nothing but work, and one must have patience.

So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

Acting was something I wanted to work at and put the time into.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.

My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

I really focused on three things in high school - my company, basketball and my school work.

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

My life is my work. My work is my life

I like to get to work early. Before my brain knows what I'm up to.

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it. The answers you want can come only from the work itself.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.