Nick Goepper Quotes

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

I try very much, whenever I do projects, whatever it is, there's only one thing on my mind, only one thing.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

When you step into the batter's box, have nothing on your mind except baseball.

Constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man's undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you're gone.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

Clarity affords focus.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.