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“Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, p...”
“It is only when I dally with what I am about look back and aside instead of keeping my eyes straight forward that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.”
“If there is anything that can be called genius it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind till we have surveyed it accurately on all ...”
“If you don't concentrate you'll end up on your rear.”
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.”
“For him who has no concentration there is no tranquility.”
“Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.”
“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows grea...”
“Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.”
“One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.”
“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.”
“I like to laugh but on the court it is my work. I try to smile but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball not on my face.”
“Successful minds work like a gimlet to a single point.”
“Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.”
“Give me a man who says this one thing I do and not these fifty things I dabble in.”
“A single idea if it is right saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.”
“A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.”
“A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.”
“When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.”
“The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.”
