129 quotes found
“Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well maybe once.”
“To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.”
“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 al...”
“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.”
“The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.”
“The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge.”
“Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.”
“One arrow does not bring down two birds.”
“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.”
“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.”
“One cannot both feast and become rich.”
“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.”
“No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.”
“To do two things at once is to do neither.”
“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.”
“A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.”
