Quotes About Focus

Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.

The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

Some people say,'Shah Rukh, you work so hard. Why don't you sit back with a glass of red wine or go out on the terrace for a smoke?' But that's not me.

Never take your eyes off your opponent. And never think you don't have to work for a victory. Even now, you could surprise me. (Takeshi)

When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

I learned that hard work is everything. As long as you keep working, keep working and keep working, you will get where you wanna go.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.

I realize that I really have to make music work for me as a career because I can't do anything else.

My studio work is a central part of my life and I'd be at loose ends without it. When I'm not in my studio, I don't stop thinking about painting.

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

Artists work best alone. Work alone.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.