You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
I have one president at a time. I only work for you.
I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up.
I never had a backup plan. I've only been good at one thing. I admire people who are jacks-of-all-trades. That's not me.
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
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.
Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'
I love working in the kitchen, but when that's the only thing you're doing, you have a very myopic view.
I'm in the game of spinning plates. I'm spinning a boxing plate. I'm spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I'm spinning a Jujitsu plate. I'm spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I'm spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.
It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.
The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.
I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.
If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.
Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all.
I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.
