Evan Williams Quotes

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

To finish first you must first finish.

Persistent in life? I think, yes, I am. I'm going to do something until I get it right.

When there's something I need to focus on, I'm like a dog with a bone.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

There's no abiding success without commitment.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.