Miguel Sapochnik Quotes

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

When I'm shooting, that's all I do.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

I can be horrifically single-minded.

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

Anything I do, I do fanatically.

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.