Haruki Murakami Quotes

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

I am a person who feels compelled and then gets immersed.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

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

When I'm shooting, that's all I do.

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

Whenever I do something, I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

My message is always very, very clear: I'm very concentrated on the game.

I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

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.

Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

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.