SZA Quotes

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

My work keeps me focused.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

I'm always focused.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

TV's not the problem, and I'm tired of it being posed as this antithesis to creativity and productivity. If TV's getting in your way of writing a book, then you don't want to write a book bad enough.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

The F-word here is focus.

Focus is the secret to success. Focus and enjoying whatever it is you're doing.

I understand how people who don't play stop doing their work. That is why I push myself every day.