129 quotes found
“Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.”
“This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.”
“All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing not scattered abroad upon a thousand.”
“The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.”
“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.”
“One thought driven home is better than three left on base.”
“Purity of heart is to will one thing.”
“A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.”
“No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.”
“Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them and are energetic persevering and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless bra...”
“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.”
“While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.”
“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.”
“If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus you must not be thinking about yourself and equally you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in...”
“The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands nor in the perfection of their bodies but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow to live an...”
“I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.”
“Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.”
“Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.”
