Intense Focus Quotes

I tend to latch on to things pretty obsessively for awhile. I listened to Russian pop music exclusively for almost five years. It's weird.

Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.

I find that a lot of the good acting comes out when you're physically being pushed: your brain turns off and just deals with the situation at hand. You get to a point where you're exhausted at the end of the day, but I quite like that.

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.

When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.

When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.

I don't think there's any player that's more talented than Alex Rodriguez. He cares very deeply about doing well. Baseball is his life. He puts a lot of pressure on himself.

Learning from Martin Sorrell will be perfect. I won't leave him alone, I'll be asking him questions the whole day, just like a striker. He's going to have to tell me everything.

I don't try to be difficult. I just care so much about these albums that I get crazed sometimes when I'm making them.

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face.

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

When I get in that cage and fight, that's not me. It's somebody else. It's like a light switch that turns on.

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.

I'm interested in the moments where the audience is restless. I'm interested in the moments where they lean in and become incredibly engaged: the laughter, the silence. All of that is part of how I think about shaping and rewriting the play.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

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.

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

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately.