Concentration Quotes

Concentrate your energies your thoughts and your capital. ... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

One man two loves. No good ever comes of that.

One cannot both feast and become rich.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

I like to laugh but on the court it is my work. I try to smile but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball not on my face.

Successful minds work like a gimlet to a single point.

A bird can roost but on one branch. A mouse can drink no more than its fill from a river.

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.

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

A single idea if it is right saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts but also unnecessary thoughts for then superfluous activity will not follow.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.

The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

You can't ring the bells and at the same time walk in the procession.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises loud talk music you name it.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

A full mind is an empty baseball bat.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me.

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth bases loaded no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.