Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

We say no to a lot of things so we can invest an incredible amount of care on what we do.

When I train, I train well.

I've always worked hard and stayed focused.

If you are a team that wants to win something, you have to play for 90 minutes with concentration and focus.

There's always room to improve, so I'm going to continue to improve on defense, offense, being consistent and continuing to play hard.

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

I don't really feel like you're making a record unless you pay attention to it.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.

It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.

You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

Writing is hard work, and fun, and requires you to keep your backside in a chair when you would sometimes like to put it elsewhere. So the only wisdom is the advice to keep at it, I guess.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.

There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.