Yoko Ono Quotes

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

I definitely learned that when I want something done, I'm very tunnel-visioned out. I don't come out of the house. I beat myself up. I don't eat. I don't sleep until it's done, especially if I have a deadline in mind.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

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.

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.

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.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

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

I tend to obsess over my passions.

Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

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.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

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

When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.

I'm not a great sleeper. I try and do too many things every day. I think that I get very obsessive about parts and projects. I do let them kind of consume me, and when there's something on the horizon that I want to be involved in, I just kind of hurtle myself towards it.

I seem to have tireless energy when I get involved in things, on an almost OCD basis, which is a good way to do things because if you're gonna do something, you'd better make sure you do it well.

I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

I am obsessed with people that are obsessed with what they do.

I want each experience on the ice to be everything I have.

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

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.

People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic