Quotes About Focus

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

I only have so much time and energy and money, and I'm going to put it into my work.

There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.

Let's take the work seriously, and not ourselves seriously.

You come ready to work when you know that you are going to get a couple of gos and it. It kind of galvanizes everything and there is something about it that keeps it very alive.

When it comes down to it, I just want to work.

If I have three ideas and I'm working on one more than the others, that sort of tells me that I should work on that one.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing something good.

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing.

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.