Sofia Boutella Quotes

I want to do one thing and do it well.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

Everyone should be good at what they do.

If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

When you do everything to make the very best product, it also means you're very focused on just a few products.

The thing that you do obsessively between the ages of 13 and 18 is the thing that you stand the best chance of being world class at.

I believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

My whole thing is if you want to do it, then do it. Kobe told me this, but he said, 'You don't wanna lay all your eggs in one basket, but you wanna lay all your eggs in one basket.' If you wanna do something and be great at it, that's what you're going to have to specialize in. Just take it and run.

Perfecting your craft is one of the main keys in being successful.

It's better to do something really really well and thorough, than I think to have a surface level version of a lot of different things.

That's kind of how I see my workmanship: it's how many hours I put in that makes me better.

I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

I take my craft seriously.

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.