Nana Patekar Quotes

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

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

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.

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

The F-word here is focus.

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

It's better to focus on one film rather than take up two or three films at the same time.

You need to have laser focus on doing your job.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

If I'm doing a job, I'll give it 100%, and that job gets my absolute focus, and everything else goes to the side. Then, that job is finished, I'll concentrate on the next job.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude.

If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.

I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.

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

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

Now, when it's time to get down to business, I get down to business.

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.