Jenson Button Quotes

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.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

I learned, for me to play at my best, I need to play with an edge.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

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

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.