Quotes About Focus

Study and keep your attention on whatever it is you're going into. Build a good team. The team needs to know what it's doing They need to be people you can trust and people you can work well with.

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

I don't ever unwind. My work is my peace. If I'm not working I'm not at peace.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.

When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

I can focus on writing, or I can get lost in wonderfully fun but endless conversations and produce nothing new at all. I count on those people who enjoy my work to understand this.

When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

If I keep going outside, I get distracted - and all these lunches and things I get invited to, I just don't care. I just want to make the work. New York is very distracting.

I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.

I'm always working. I work wherever I am.

It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

It's all about work when you reach up, tap in and step on that field. You don't mess around when you go through that gate.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

The pen isn't really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

The most important thing is work.

I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

Those who cannot renounce attachment to the results of their work are far from the path.