You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

I think it definitely helps to be really focused on what you are doing. You can only work so many hours, and I try to have some balance in my life and so on. I think a lot of people go through this in school.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The teacher complained to my mother that I was too task-focused and that she couldn't get me to switch tasks, so she would have to just pick up my chair and move me. And by the way, if you ask the people who work with me, that's still probably true today.

You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.