Singlemindedness Quotes & Sayings

Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself. — Marcus Aurelius

With a singlemindedness common only to former Soviet interior-ministry troops and first-year law students — Gary Shteyngart

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy. — Emil Cioran

It's hard to date once you're a big Star Wars star because you don't want to give people the ability to say, "I had sex with Princess Leia." — Carrie Fisher

As child, when the elders spoke their wise words, it only echoes in my ears. As adult, I have crystal clear insight to the wise aphorisms by the elderly. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts. — Chris Bradford

If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now. — Donald Trump

I'm not exactly an angry young person. — Renee Fleming

Singlemindedness is all-powerful. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Reading is good, action is better. — Eric Ries

Who is he anyhow, an actor?"
"No."
"A dentist?"
" ... No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919."
"Fixed the World Series?" I repeated.
The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as something that merely happened, the end of an inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people
with the singlemindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.
"How did he happen to do that?" I asked after a minute.
"He just saw the opportunity."
"Why isn't he in jail?"
"They can't get him, old sport. He's a smart man. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly your in Lord of the Flies for 40 minutes. Your hanging from a rope, you have hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you, kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's Science,Language, and History. Now that is a weird day. — Jerry Seinfeld

Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest ... into which he has settled ... Wisdom immediately appears ... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide. — Hakuin Ekaku

Jessie even did drive-bys of your house and yes, that's plural. Reportedly, you didn't come up for air all weekend. — Kristen Ashley

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me. — Steven Hatfill

I'd rather be an unknown book in the library of time, than a bestseller in the store of mankind. — Stephan Attia

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. — George Orwell