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Quotes About Focus

In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?
~ Swami Vivekananda
Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I always watch the work I do.
~ Tamara Tunie
I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.
~ Tatiana Maslany
I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.
~ Taylor Momsen
In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.
~ Ted Alexandro
With a project like 'Teachers Lounge,' you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.
~ Ted Alexandro
My life is basically my work.
~ Temple Grandin
What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.
~ Temple Grandin
I like to work at night.
~ Terry Southern
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.
~ Tiger Woods
Just because something has been a lot of work or consumed a lot of time doesn't make it productive or worthwhile.
~ Tim Ferriss
Attention is the material I work with.
~ Tino Sehgal
If it really made sense to "let the club do the work," you'd just say, "Driver, wedge to the green, one-putt," and walk to the next tee.
~ Tom Mulligan
It is hard to produce work in New York. You kind of have to center yourself - do some Zen meditation exercises and just focus. It is very distracting, and money, of course, is an issue.
~ Toyin Odutola
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
~ Twyla Tharp
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
~ Vikram Seth
If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
~ Wayne Brady
All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
~ Wayne White
Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.
~ Wendy Wasserstein
I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.
~ Werner Herzog
I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.
~ Whit Stillman