Single-Mindedness Quotes

A zealot is a person who, having forgotten his original purpose, redoubles his efforts.

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. This is the way to success.

Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. “There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him,” Cook said. “That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

I can focus on just one thing - that's basketball.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, he may shoot strong but never straight.

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

When I'm shooting, that's all I do.

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

I set out in the beginning to be the heavyweight champion of the world. From a very young age, I was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world. Nothing else was a problem to me. That's what I'll finish doing.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

Don't talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.

I used to have tears in my eyes on the way to practice because I was so focused. For me, track and field was serious business. I didn't have any friends. I was very isolated and very focused.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

You know, I'm trying to chase rings, and that's all I'm about. So that's where the conversation stops for me.

Women are simply not endowed with the same measure of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed.

You start living for the obsession alone ... You want to arrive somewhere regardless of whether you're enjoying the road or not.