Tracy Hickman Quotes

Without obsession, life is nothing.

The one mindset I have is this title - title or bust.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

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

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.

My focus is basketball, and that's it.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Anything I do, I do fanatically.

'Siya Ke Ram' will leave us with hardly any scope to think of other projects. And I wouldn't want to work on something and not be whole-hearted in it, either.

If you're on Earth as a single-purpose engine, and there's only one thing you want to do for the rest of your life, have at it.

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

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

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

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.

Live and die on this day... Live and die on this day.

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.