Vitruvius Quotes

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I think about work 24 hours a day. But when you fly a helicopter, for that hour or two you can't think about anything else.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

It takes me forever to read a book. I have such a small attention span.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

In terms of, like, getting into a mindset, I use music all the time when I'm working.

I remember so well my father's complete concentration when he went to the studio. Everything he did, every movement he made, he did with complete concentration. Then, after he had finished work, he would go to the beach or whatever, and then he would enjoy play and forget about his work.

The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.

Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus.

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal.

It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you don’t worry about what people think of you.