Jonathan Tucker Quotes

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist.

I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my intention on my goal and making all decisions based off of that intention.

Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a goal of being the best on Earth in mixed martial arts and fighting. I wanted to build my mind into something good, not just of the world. I wanted to be different.

In my efforts to better my stamina and career, I find myself becoming more monk-like. And I'm not talking about the 'holy, praying, create awesome Trappist beer'-type monk. I'm talking about the 'go to bed early, no drinking, no talking, and no having any fun'-type monk.

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

I could spend two years cross-legged on my floor and feel like I was working.

I lose faith in everything else, but rarely in my work. If I start to get bored, I change it to make it more interesting. I try not to take it too seriously, but I also try to never cheat or hurry things along.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it's best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my way of trying to make sense of all these ambivalent feelings I have.

I'm not perfect, but I think that I've done good to stay focused on what I'm called to do.

Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.

When the reward is the activity itself--deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best--there are no shortcuts.

The road to success is through commitment.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

You're always striving for a place of Zen. Or a flow state, where you kind of transcend reality and you go to the other place. It's when everything is in sync, and everyone is connecting with one another. Everything is going perfectly. You lose yourself. It's the ultimate form of meditation where it's an out - of - body experience. Afterward you come back to Earth and you're like, 'What just happened? We just did something awesome!' It's this energy in the room when you know you're nailing it and you know everyone else is feeling it too. That's why theater is so awesome.

The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation, and surrender.

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

If you are centered, you can move freely.

There can be no progress nor achievement without sacrifice, and a man's worldly success will be by the measure that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts, and fixes his mind on the development of his plans, and the strengthening of his resolution and self-reliance.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.