Professional Focus Quotes

I'm quite a private person and I like my work to do the talking.

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for.

There's one downside in comparison to both Soyuz and SpaceX, is that when you go to those places - when I went to Russia, or when I went to California - you're sort of focused on what you're doing. Your family's not there. Your lawn isn't needing to be cut. You're just focusing on what you need to do.

I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.

If people are talking about me, I want it to be because of the work I'm doing and not the person I'm seeing.

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

I am always mission driven, and I always ask myself what I want to be working on, what project excites me the most. I figure that out and then find the best place to do that work.

I'd really like to have a family at some point. Not that I'm not focused on my career - of course I am... And if a great project comes my way, then of course I'll take it. But I'm not actively out seeking something specific.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

Grissom is a character who doesn't really want people poking around in his life. He likes to poke around in his work.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

As an entrepreneur, I am focused on my business.

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.

I am a footballer. I know how to play football, and I know how to manage projects in the area of football. This is what I want to limit myself to.

It's easy to be an actor at 8 or 9 in the morning, but it's really important to be focused and work hard at 6 and 7 at night, after you've been on the set for 10 or 12 hours. That time counts, too.

I think the more important thing for a player is to make sure that you're playing and you're playing well and playing consistently. If doesn't matter where you are.

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

You know me, I'm not that kind of person that cares to unveil all of my personal things to the world because frankly, in terms of my soccer, it doesn't matter.

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

I don't read anything about my movies before or after I do films, or any part of show business. I think that keeps me in a kind of place where I can do the work that I need to do.