Quotes About Focus

There are some things that you can work on immediately.

If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

I spend a lot of time alone so I get a lot done. I don't do much else but work, check things out.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

I know what I want and I'm going to work to get it.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

All my buddies over the years, like Kevin Costner and the guys - I see em go here, I see em go there - but I just do my work.

It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

Ignore the junk news - work on a worthwhile project, make a plan, or do something to enhance your life.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.

I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

Deep play precedes deep work.

You can't be afraid of hard work or long hours. Sacrifice is important.