Singular Focus Quotes

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

There is no one else - there's never been anyone else but you. You're it Maddie.

All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite; these people, as unworldly as they seem, burrow like termites into their own particular material to construct, in miniature, a strange and utterly individual image of the world.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.

For most of my 20s I felt the need to focus solely on my goals and let nothing distract me.

There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, I think it would have been worthwhile.

In working out our callings, we are to perform for one audience, the audience of One.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.