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Quotes About Focus

If you train 100% the result will be 100%.
~ Anderson Silva
My fingers always seem busier than my mind.
~ Alexander Calder
Do whatever you do intensely.
~ Robert Henri
Students of any art, including Karate-do must never forget the cultivation of the mind and the body.
~ Gichin Funakoshi
Art is about paying attention.
~ Laurie Anderson
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
~ Pablo Picasso
Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.
~ Maria Popova
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
~ Diane Arbus
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.
~ Bruce Lee
The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
~ Adolf Hitler
Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo
~ Ed Parker
They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.
~ Koichi Tohei
Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.
~ Bruce Lee
Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.
~ Claude Monet
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
~ William Faulkner
I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.
~ John Currin
The only thing that is not art is inattention
~ Marcel Duchamp
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
~ Camille Pissarro
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
~ Edgar Degas
The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.
~ Steve Jobs
The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.
~ Jim Carrey
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
~ Zubin Mehta
The subject comes first, the medium second.
~ Richard Prince
Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.
~ Unknown