Quotes About Focus

I'm not a Casanova in 'The Newsroom,' by the way - just another hard worker.

I work on multiple projects at a time because it keeps me from getting writer's block.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

The work is the most important thing.

Nobody really wants to work anymore. Nobody has the dedication to say, "It's going to take me ten years to get through this thing."

I like to work fast and I like to work intensively.

It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

I really do work in solitude.

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

One thing I've never been accused of is slowly coming into something. I always go full on (and ask) "Now how do we make this work?"

I think that work has been the key for me. Just like they say shooting will become easy if you just keep working at it, well, I love the dribble game-that brings excitement to the game.

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.

Work backward from your goal.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

There's nothing attractive about doing a documentary. Nothing. It's hard, hard work, and I find having all the attention of the day on me a very unattractive proposition.

Play needs direction as well as work.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.