Jimmy Page Quotes

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

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

When it comes to work, I am focused. I work like a maniac.

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.

Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.

I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

Honestly, I just keep my nose to the grindstone and keep working. At the end of the day, that's usually one of those things that's going to get you ahead.

My toughest job every day is maintaining intensity with myself and with my staff.

One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

I've always been somebody who sort of throws himself, you could say, obsessively into whatever thing I'm passionate about.

I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I'm working as hard as I can.

I have a pretty intense work ethic. If something's not done, I cannot let go until I get it done.

I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is.

Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision

Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.

I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.