Jim Courier Quotes

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

The F-word here is focus.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.

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.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

The thing to remember is that the work comes first, and not to get distracted by anything else. If you keep focused on the work, everything else will fall into place. That's my mantra now.

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.

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.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

I'm very big on focus.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Focus. It's powerful to do just one thing and pour all your energy into it.

My biggest flaw is probably my attention span or lack thereof. And while it might seem contradictory, my biggest strength is my work ethic.