Tommy Shaw Quotes

You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.

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

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.

When the time comes to work, I work.

Play so that you may be serious.

If you are having fun on the set, you are not getting things done.

Discipline, work. Work, discipline.

I'm very serious about what I do. I practice every day for three hours. I work on my scales; I work on my tone. But otherwise, I like to have fun.

I just try to do what I have to do and let the people out there do what they have to do, which is have fun, scream, yell and jump around. I try to do what I have to do, which is play baseball, and I can only play in that piece of area there, so that's what I try to do.

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

Do the day's work.

I'm the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

How dare one act like a diva when you have a lot of work to do and you need to find your disciplines and so on?

Everyone likes to have fun. But when I look back on my life, I'm not going to say, 'Oh, we're the crazy party animals.' I'll look back and say, 'Wow, we did take this seriously.' We had fun while we were out doing it, but it's just the only thing you read about: 'They're a bunch of party animals.' To be honest, that's not true.

I've got my head down, working hard, while others are chasing other frivolous things.

We've been training since we were small. You definitely got to love it to be part of this family. We like to have fun. We like to work hard, and always staying out of trouble and always doing the right thing.

I have fun when it's the right time to have fun, but when I lock in for practice and matches, I'm not worried about fun.