Paulo Coelho Quotes

Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

The one mindset I have is this title - title or bust.

If there is one thing I am, it is very hard-headed. If I want something, I go after it - and I go after it ad nauseum.

I've always been one of those people - once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.

I'm obsessive when I get an idea in my head.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

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

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

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.

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.

Without obsession, life is nothing.

When I get something in my head, it's hard for me to just let it go.

From the time I was 11 until I was 23 and met my wife, wrestling was all I cared about. It was an obsession, and that's why I think I ended up making it. There was no other option for me.

I have tunnel vision. I go out and try to get better each and every day.

Literally, from the moment I wake up from the moment I go to sleep, I'm just working without distraction. It's just the way I'm wired.

I don't understand why 'obsessive' has a negative connotation, I'm an obsessive and I like it. I get an idea and I stick to it.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.