Sebastian Gorka Quotes

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

Those who apply themselves too much to little things often become incapable of great ones

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

When I'm writing something and I'm really into it, that's all I can think about, and it becomes the most important thing in the world to me, and it may not be that, in reality.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

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

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

A zealot is a person who, having forgotten his original purpose, redoubles his efforts.

Silicon Valley tends to be very myopic - to be focused on one or two things - which has some strengths as well as weaknesses.

I was so locked in. At one point I remember thinking, I'm not going to be a father, boyfriend, friend, whatever. I'm here to play.