Quotes About Single-mindedness

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These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus. They were so necessary, and not only to me. Without them we would still be living in mud huts, waiting to invent the wheel.

Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.

Some people have many options but for me football was my only option, so I gave everything.

I'd always been leery of Eric, but I'd appreciated his mischief, his single-mindedness, and his flair. If you could a vampire had jois de vivre, Eric had it in spades. -Sookie

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not these fifty things I dabble in.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man.

It drives my wife crazy because I can tune out anything. Whatever it is I'm focused on, I won't hear anything, I'm just focused on what I need to get done. It becomes a problem sometimes. I've been that way from as early as I can remember.

In Turkey people really love sport, they only think about football.

I wanted to be completely and totally entrenched, immersed in this football life, this culture all the way, so you don't even have a thought, an inkling, that my mind is somewhere else.

I was able to resolve these global issues in a single mortalage lifespan with acute single-mindedness. Since I am a cumulous of human knowledge, my success proves that humanity had the knowledge to do it, it simply required someone powerful enough to accomplish it—and I am nothing if not powerful.

they have no thought for anything else, never live a moment for any other idea

If you are once sure what you do want, you find that everything else goes down before it like grass under a roller—(all other interests, your own and other people's. I had

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

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 thought. This is the way to success.

Whether one is remaining alert (mindfulness), focusing on a single thought or phrase (mantra), or mentally exploring ones inner world (visualization), all are one form of concentration or another.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Writing has to be an obsession - it's only for those who say, 'I'm not going to do anything else.'