Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

I'm very much in work mode, and that can be very difficult for someone to deal with. I dedicate so much of myself to my work that I even take a back seat to that sometimes. My mother says that Tremaine takes a back seat to Trey Songz.

In the past, I've thrown myself into work so much there's been very little room for anything else.

I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

You've got to be dedicated and throw yourself into parts and auditions in a way that is completely selfless.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.

In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.

I feel like there's a currency to your personal life and your performance - your acting, your work. If that personal life starts to outweigh what the work is, then your work suffers. Your actual performance suffers because the audience won't see the character, they'll see you.

I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

I was so locked in. At one point I remember thinking, I'm not going to be a father, boyfriend, friend, whatever. I'm here to play.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

When you start thinking it is a party instead of putting your suit and tie on and getting your job done and handling your business, you are thinking about the wrong thing.

Being a baseball player is most important, first and foremost. Obviously, there are other obligations that come with everything. You just need to balance it and take it in stride, but at the same time, be mindful of your time and prioritize everything and what is most beneficial.

Though acting offers would keep coming and going, and I would pick up only the ones that I find good, my hands are literally full with candles... I can't think beyond them.

I love my work and that's the only thing I think about.

I work pretty much every day. I can't really separate it from life, so I guess the work is my life.

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

It is hard to get things done if you spend all of your time with the choir as opposed to the rest of the congregation.