Quotes About Single-mindedness

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

he who sticks to one thing is irresistible.

When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed - only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before.

Definitely, if you're just going into the game focused on one thing, then you'll definitely be better at that one thing.

Lord Emsworth had one of those minds capable of accommodating but one thought at a time--if that.

never disperse your focus unless absolutely necessary. Face one adversary at a time.

A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.

I probably don't have any room in my mind for anything but football. My dad tells me I'm a total vegetable outside of just knowing football.

I give all my life to football; I only think about football. This is what is on my mind all the time.

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Junaid said: 'I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life.

I can tell you at any rate how to get what you want. You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eye wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal--the truest thing in Scripture is about Lot's wife.

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 idea alone

If I'm not asleep, it's probably all basketball.

Seriously, until I was 16 or 17, I didn't care about anything other than ESPN.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.

It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration.

And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

As is usually true of a man of one idea, he became obsessed.

There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus.

I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else... no plan B.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.