Leonard Nimoy Quotes

The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that's worthwhile. Otherwise, you're just doodling. It's much easier when you're just told what you have to do.

When you're excited about a project, sometimes it's hard to put a script down.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

All my coaching life, I am the same, always on the touchline, the same way. I am in the game all the time. I am focused.

It is very important for an artiste to be excited about her work in every phase of her career. If a tiredness seeps into one's attitude, it will show in the quality of one's work.

Always be focused and never let it go - that's something I've learned so much. I learned that from Simeone.

The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.

Discipline is the servant of inspiration.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

I enjoy people who have passion, whether it is as a musician or whatever they do. All people who have success keep it very basic. Try your best. But without passion, you will not have success.

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

You can have fun, but when it is time to work, work hard and be focused.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come to my studio at about 7:30 in the morning and exit almost 5:00 P.M. In that time, those eight or nine hours, it's kind of laser focus on whatever I'm working on. There aren't really any distractions or anything.

We only take on projects that we're really passionate about.

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

I'm always focused.

When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it.