Monomaniacal Focus Quotes & Sayings

In all the universe nothing remains permanent and unchanged but the spirit. — Anton Chekhov

Most blues begin 'woke up this morning'. — Judith Podell

Love is nothing but joy accompanied with the idea of an eternal cause. — Baruch Spinoza

I don't discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can't be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver. — Gayle Forman

For all of its glamour and frivolity, fashion happens to be a relevant and powerful force in our lives. At every level of society, people care greatly about the way they look, which affects both their self-esteem and the way other people interact with them. — Teri Agins

Act like you expect to get into the end zone. — Joe Paterno

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. — Matt Taibbi

The world is governed by personalities very different to what people
that cannot see further than their eyes, believe — Benjamin Disraeli

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history. — Harry Reid

Hello," he greeted her cheerfully. "You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here?"
Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. "The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time. — Tamora Pierce

Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity. — Robin Sharma

Through the haze, bulbous shapes drifted to and fro about the town. Silka guessed they were the dirigibles of which her father had sometimes spoken
great elongated bags of gas ribbed and hung with gondolas, powered by grinding engines, gouting steam, and sparks as they cruised like airborne pigs, filled with passengers and cargoes. — Allan Frewin Jones

I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster — P.G. Wodehouse

MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience. — Matt Haig