Single-Minded Focus Quotes

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

It does take a great hunger to be successful at anything.

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

We were watching the movements of tens of thousands of disciplined fanatics [Irish Catholic extremists], abstaining from every excess and indulgence and concentrating every passion and feeling on one single object .

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession. Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything. I respect all forms of movement and lifestyles, but I am in a bubble. I wake up, it is in my head; I go to sleep, it's in my head, 24/7.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

I have feelings, but not when it comes to basketball. I'm here to win. I'm not here to make friends.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I have spent the last five months obsessively working on Outlaw.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.

I enjoy the competition and whatever it takes throughout the competition, I will do it.

I'm not a player, I'm an alien...My focus is on winning championships. I don't focus on anything else. Aliens only want to win championships.

When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.

Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeared. I'd done well in school up until that time. I was fairly adjusted socially up until that time. And I became completely monomania, obsessed all through my teens. Nothing else existed anymore.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

People used to ask me, 'What else do you want to do?' For me, the answer was, 'Nothing.' I loved basketball. It's all I wanted.

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

It's [F1] your life. You're focused on just one thing and there's no room for anything else. Friends don't necessarily understand, because the way you think about life develops completely differently to how it does for normal people.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.