Quotes About Focus

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

If I wanted to do TV full-time, 'Breaking Bad' is definitely the type of project I would want to do. But TV is not my favorite thing in the world. I definitely want to focus on film. It's what I grew up loving. It's always been about movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. I really want to make great films.

My brain is a big cluster of stuff. It moves quickly and loses focus quickly, so I need many projects to keep me stimulated - it's a luxury to be able to do lots of different things: style, write, present, DJ or just consult. It can't be any other way; I think I would shrivel up and fall asleep forever.

No new projects at the moment. There are restrictions to how much I can take on. And I need to finish those that I am committed to do before thinking ahead. But I'd rather they take final shape before we talk of them.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

We only take on projects that we're really passionate about.

The Momofuku Culinary Lab started as a space where we could focus on creating and innovating. I didn't want us to worry about working on projects in a restaurant; there are just too many distractions in service and running a kitchen to be able to focus on creating your dishes.

I concentrate on doing good projects.

It is easy to have a lot of paintings or projects hanging around that are 'almost done.'

Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects.

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.

I don't think in terms of projects.

Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.

I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.

For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

I try to block a couple of hours of unscheduled time every day so that I can work on the day's most important projects.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

When people tell me I'm a prolific writer, it's a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, 'Yeah, but I don't do anything else.'

Every memory I had growing up was involving a basketball. I didn't go to the prom and stuff like that. It was always basketball for me.

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

The president has made good on a promise to ensure that the American people are not subject to overreach... and fulfilled a commitment to keep America first and focus on American jobs.