Lou Reed Quotes

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

Keep your eye on the ball.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

When my entire focus is on training and just preparing... I just do 100-percent that and nothing else.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

I can focus on just one thing - that's basketball.

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

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.

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

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

Stay focused on the mission.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

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

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

My focus is basketball, and that's it.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.