Obsessive Focus Quotes

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually is to be found only in the minds of people about to be executed in the next half hour.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological

I like to mimic my grandkids. I'm trying to understand the intensity of fixation on a leaf. Kids don't need anything else in their life.

There is an obsessive focus on speed at Google.

The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

I was born in the breezes, and I had studied the sea as perhaps few men have studied it, neglecting all else.

I think when you have 24 hours in a day to just think about basketball all the time, that's just what I want to do. I want to fall in love with it and just do everything I can to be the best at it.

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.