Quotes About Single-mindedness

Es mucho más probable que los hombres descubran métodos idóneos y expeditos para alcanzar cualquier objetivo cuando toda la atención de sus mentes está dirigida hacia ese único objetivo que cuando se disipa entre una gran variedad de cosas.

Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things.

I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer

He's a guy with a one-track mind. When he starts for one objective he can't think of anything else.

I'm sure I was insensitive. I'm probably still a jerk at times. But my priority as a freshman was to be good in basketball and play a lot. Not to be the nicest person in the world. I was one-track-minded. I still am.

You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if I've got that cold-eyed egomania that perhaps is needed to get to the top. So as long as I can keep paying the mortgage and keep myself interested, I'll be happy.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Our plan is one, one and again one alone—to reach the pole. For that goal, I have decided to throw everything else aside.

We don't have a Plan B.

You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

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

I prefer my saints to live in caves and not to try to impose their standards on the world: for single-mindedness is a cold virtue.

was sure he was joking. But he was sitting there with that strange energy of his, that mix of malice and single-mindedness that made him so hard to read

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

My focus is basketball, and that's it.

I am just focusing on one match at a time.

When it's football season, I'm all football.

With Manchester United I want to win. I therefore do not pay attention to what happens in other clubs, I'm totally focused on Manchester United.

Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal

When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.

When you're an athlete, you've got the horse blinders on pretty thick. Your exploration of other things in life tends to be limited because you have to have such a focus on what you're doing. I wasn't a good enough player to stray from that focus and still keep my ability.