Lynsey Addario Quotes

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.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.

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

If there's a goal, you can't stop me. I'll put my head down. I'll have tunnel vision and I'll go until I get it.

I have tunnel vision. I go out and try to get better each and every day.

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

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

You have to be driven. You have to be focused. You have to be aware.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

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

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

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.

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

You want to win everything you are in.

Ambition can take the place of everything - even sex.