One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left. William Matthews

• focus
• talent
• ability

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. Leonardo da Vinci

• focus

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• focus

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson

• focus

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. Harry Fosdick

• discipline
• focus

If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you do have control. John Wooden

• focus

The man who chases two rabbits catches neither. Confucius

• focus

When you work on your most important tasks at a high and continuous level of activity, you can actually enter into an amazing mental state called "flow." Almost everyone has experienced this at some time. Really successful people are those who get themselves into this state far more often than average. Brian Tracy

• work
• focus

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• fear
• work
• duty
• focus

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it. Charlie Munger

• enthusiasm
• focus

What it comes down to is that success demands singleness of purpose. Some call it mental toughness; I think it is singleness of purpose and, once you have agreed upon the price that you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to forget that price. Vince Lombardi

• focus
• success