Top 100 Single Minded Quotes
#1. Focus isn't just working with single-minded devotion to a purpose. It's also working ONLY on things that take you towards your goals.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#2. Single-minded and joyous devotion to God and his will, to what God wants for us-and to service to him and to others because of him-is what the will transformed into Christliheness looks like.
Dallas Willard
#3. If a woman has talent she'll get there. But she has to be willing to fight ... to have tremendous determination and be single-minded about it.
Patricia Lovell
#4. Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.
Ellen Langer
#5. Big money isn't hard to come by. All it costs is a lifetime of single-minded devotion to acquiring it and making it grow into more money.
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. I'm no Kenneth Branagh or Ben Stiller. I'm not that single-minded, 'I'm producing it, directing it, and starring in it' kind of person; that's not me.
Tom Hollander
#7. Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.
Peter Drucker
#8. Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
Cyril Wecht
#9. A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
Teju Cole
#10. To feel myself. Light as a feather free as a bird, though long since fit to be shot down. Unleash the dog with no sense of shame. Become this or that. Awaken the dead. Wear my pal Baldander's rags for a change. Lose my way on a single-minded quest.
Gunter Grass
#11. Lucien Knight was a walking, talking hang up, a beautiful mass of contradictions. He'd been single-minded in his mission to free her from her marriage and it was time to return the favour.
Kitty French
#12. The short story is not as restrictive as the sonnet, but, of all the literary forms, it is possibly the most single-minded. ... at the end there has to be the literary equivalent of the magician's puff of smoke, an outcome that is both startling and anticipated.
Louis Menand
#13. These clever, amoral, inventive, destructive men, single-minded, selfish, emotionally cool, coolly attractive. I think I preferred them to the love of Jesus.
Ian McEwan
#15. The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers
Peter Drucker
#16. Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.
Tim Cahill
#17. Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells.
George Lucas
#18. An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
E.F. Schumacher
#19. Painters must want to paint above all else. If the artist in front of the canvas begins to wonder how much he will sell it for, or what the critics will think of it, he won't be able to pursue original avenues. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#20. Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.
Brian Tracy
#21. I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child.
Ellen Gilchrist
#22. Well, that explains the dreamy accent. And why transvestites would make him feel homesick.
- SINGLE-MINDED
Lisa Daily
#23. While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
Bennie Thompson
#24. Single-minded, determined, and intelligent organizational talent probably can create an effective army from any group of men.
Trevor N. Dupuy
#25. God, there's nothing sexier than a nice strong jawline and a movie-star-quality chin dimple. It's my own personal kryptonite.
- SINGLE-MINDED
Lisa Daily
#26. You have to be single minded, drive only for one thing on which you have decided. And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends will suddenly show up ... to trip you, blacken you, and break your spirit.
John R Noe
#27. The most powerful purpose statements are crystal clear and single-minded in their focus.
Roy Spence
#28. To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.
Tariq Ali
#29. This is what is meant by being single-minded. If you choose something, choose it with all your might, with all your heart. Don't be faint-hearted. Keep going! Keep moving toward it. Be determined.
Neale Donald Walsch
#30. He was seething inside with a new emotion. Nothing seemed very important anymore except the Princess. He was single-minded about her. He was enchanted. He was possessed. He was in love.
Ken Follett
#33. An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault.
Alison Weir
#34. 'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.
Peter Jackson
#35. Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson.
Martina Navratilova
#36. His single-minded purpose. His unending fury.
Stephen King
#37. Left, Right. Steady effort. This is familiar. Most accomplishment is like this . . . Not the result of decisive actions, or moments of truth.
No, persistence is the source of the best of what we do, of real change. Even, single-minded persistence.
Paul Chadwick
#39. In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.
John Burnside
#40. When a person is resolute [determined, sold out, dedicated, single-minded] in his faith and recognizes God's Presence everywhere, he is protected from all sides.
Gloria Copeland
#41. To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#42. What ultimately got me through was my single-minded determination, voiced aloud to myself and recorded in my diary, to discover the causes of my blindness and never to repeat them. Fearlessly pursuing insight was my badge of honor, my route back to self-respect.
Jeanne Safer
#43. I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of five. I've been lucky to be so single-minded - some of my friends still don't know what they want to do, and they're finding it hard. There are home videos of me singing and taking centre stage at family parties when I'm about three.
Pixie Lott
#44. I had failed the psychological profiling of a terrorist. The central committee of the Red Brigades had judged me too single-minded and too opinionated to become a good terrorist.
Loretta Napoleoni
#45. Single minded pursuit of the kingdom of God and his righteousness results in having everlasting life
Sunday Adelaja
#46. I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis,
Rana Dasgupta
#47. Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.
John Green
#48. Our greatest national illusion is that a healthy society can be organized around the single-minded pursuit of wealth.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#50. To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.
Evelyn Keyes
#51. Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.
John Eliot
#52. I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.
Evelyn Ashford
#53. Simplified living is about more than doing less. It's being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It's walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we've been called and for which we've been created.
Bill Hybels
#54. You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.
Reggie Lee
#55. These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you had to admire. We were hopelessly outnumbered, but we still slapped and kicked and karate-chopped ourselves until we reached an uneasy truce.
Terri Cheney
#56. Against legitimacy is arrayed usurpation; against modest,
single-minded, righteous, and brave resistance to encroachment
is arrayed boastful, double-tongued, selfish, and treacherous
ambition to possess. God defend the right!"
"God often defends the powerful.
Charlotte Bronte
#57. You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided. - General George S. Patton
Gary Keller
#58. Those who know Bertram Wooster best are aware that he is a man of sudden, strong enthusiasms and that, when in the grip of one of these, he becomes a remorseless machine - tense, absorbed, single-minded.
P.G. Wodehouse
#59. I'm mesmerized by the way he speaks - New Orleans is pronounced N'awlins. When he says backyard, it's backyaaad. It's the kind of voice that makes you feel instantly at home, like you're a close friend or part of the inner circle.
- SINGLE-MINDED
Lisa Daily
#60. Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
Willie Sutton
#61. By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
Russell Brand
#62. I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
Sam Elliott
#63. Andy Stasiuk was a newsman of the old school of front-page journalism - tough, knowledgeable, cynical, single-minded and fun. He covered the news as a happy warrior in an era of cutthroat editorial competition.
Donald Newhouse
#64. Art itself my be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe.
Joseph Conrad
#65. Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
Chuck Jones
#66. When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.
Michael Gira
#67. In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#68. The star-flooded nights, the dew-soaked dawns, the hushed ambulatories, the enforced asceticism - never has Werner felt part of something so single-minded.
Anthony Doerr
#69. The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.
H.G.Wells
#70. What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?
Harlan Coben
#71. From what I'd witnessed, Alona Dare was single minded, determined, and ruthless. If high school was a zoo, she was the lioness running the hunt on the hapless tourists who'd wandered into the wrong enclosure.
Stacey Kade
#72. Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.
Bret Anthony Johnston
#73. Someone who was so single-minded of focus and so fragile of emotion.
Lizbeth Selvig
#74. Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share
maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded
never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.
Anne Cassidy
#75. Single-minded dedication to just one thing, without rest, respite or distraction, is only conducive to migraines, not productivity.
Claire North
#76. With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the spirit. The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.
Eric Sevareid
#78. From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
Friedrich Hayek
#79. Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.
David Gemmell
#80. He fucks with the single-minded devotion of a dying man hunting God.
Karen Marie Moning
#81. At the beginning of his administration, Obama homed right in on Medicare, which he wanted to fix by reducing the overall cost of health care in this country. He risked everything - some would claim he lost everything - by being so single-minded.
Gail Collins
#83. Do you have one where you're riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.
- SINGLE-MINDED
Lisa Daily
#84. Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#86. The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.
D.T. Suzuki
#87. Rail as they will about 'discrimination,' women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.
Pat Buchanan
#88. Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.
Anandamayi Ma
#89. Traditional ways to deal with information
reading, listening, writing, talking
are painfully slow in comparison to "viewing the big picture." Those who survive information overload will be those who search for information with broadband thinking but apply it with a single-minded focus.
Kathryn Alesandrini
#90. A single-minded purpose gives sacred strength to achieve the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.
John Ciardi
#92. One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation.
Lisa Daily
#93. I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.
Beth Ditto
#94. I'd like to say I'm not dressed up for anyone in particular, but that would be a lie.
Lisa Daily
#95. I sort of have a dog-minded single strategy but I am a little more open to stuff that's out there, now and looking at scripts in the world and seeing if something that already exists can spark my interest and my curiosity.
Todd Haynes
#96. He gently takes the lead, and I trail behind him up the narrow spiral stairway at the back of the kitchen. His hand is warm, and holding it feels like the easiest thing in the world. Too easy. I'm going to get myself in trouble.
Lisa Daily
#97. He smiles, his palpable charisma pulling me in like low tide. Or riptide.
Lisa Daily
#98. Dance, cher?" he asks, his blue eyes playful. I nod and he pulls me gently into his arms. He's warm. We sway to the music and the gentle rocking of the boat. His hand rests on the small of my back, in that sweet spot that makes you feel feminine and protected and adored all at once.
Lisa Daily
#99. There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must counterattacked area by area.
Robert Bork
#100. For a long time we sit there not saying anything, enjoying the quiet of the bay and the occasional steamy knee bump.
Lisa Daily
