Alex Zanardi Quotes

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

I want to really start focusing on what I want to accomplish and what it is I want to achieve, but not micromanaging this or that and focusing on the little things.

Don't waste a moment of energy looking around at what other people are doing.

I think we all have demons, but my demons aren't that bad. They're productive demons. They keep me focused on the man I want to be and the life I want to live.

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.

I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

I set some goals: little goals first and then the big ones. I stopped thinking about big achievements.

I only focus on what I can do.

I have ideas every day, and if I'm not carrying a pad of paper, I'm typing it into the notes thing on my iPhone, and it's just ridiculous - idle hands are the devil's plaything, and I can't be the devil's plaything. I got to be the devil; I got to be the guy making it all happen.

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

I know where my priorities lie.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don't even pay attention to things you don't.

This life is yours and no one else's, and if you spend your time looking at other people's pages, you'll never get anything done.

You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing.

As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of things going on in my mind done.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

When I get on a course that's not very good, that's not tough, I fall asleep. Mentally I must be lazy, like a little kid, but I always seem to do well when there's a tough situation.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.