Top 1200 Single-Minded Quotes & Sayings

I think the single most important political distinction today is actually between open-minded versus closed-minded, and that's why I think this crosses the boundaries of traditional - center-right and center-left have much more in common with each other right now than the right does with the center-right, and the left does with the center-left.

In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

The most powerful purpose statements are crystal clear and single-minded in their focus.

I can be horrifically single-minded.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

I'm very determined, single-minded, just ask the wife.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal

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.

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.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve.

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.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

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.

A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.

I've always just kind of been a single-minded person.

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.

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.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.

I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they want to do with themselves, hesitate because they have a great deal more to deal with. A nature rich in fine and complex possibilities takes more time to dispose of itself, but when it does, the world's beauty is the gainer.

Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

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.

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?.

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions.

The NBA is the single most progressive, inclusive, open-minded sports league in the country.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

The two greatest works of war mythology in the west ... are the Iliad and the Old Testament... When we turn from the Iliad and Athens to Jerusalem and the Old Testament we find a single-minded single deity with his sympathies forever on one side. And the enemy, accordingly, no matter who it may be, is handled... pretty much as though he were subhuman: not a "Thou" but an "It."

Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to what there is to know and recognize that they might be wrong. Closed-minded people always tell you what they know, even if they know hardly anything about the subject being discussed. They are typically made uncomfortable by being around those who know a lot more about a subject, unlike open-minded people who are thrilled by such company.

Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.

The most forward-leaning leaders are single-minded about creating company cultures that foster a true spirit of innovation.

There's something uniquely unsettling about the unhinged woman on a single-minded mission. Especially when she's the last person you ever imagined to harbour a dark and seething soul.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Spend enough time wrangling a toddler, and you get good at being kind but firm. Like your child, you must be doggedly single-minded when it matters.

I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

From the age of 6 to 33, I was utterly driven and single-minded.

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

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.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.

I was always single-minded, never thinking about what was being said or written about me.

I was single-minded and I had tunnel vision. Now it's time for a change.

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.

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.

Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.

I am amazed when people say I am single-minded.

George is very, very single-minded in his approach. And I think a lot of the things that he has said and done have been misconstrued as arrogant rather than the single-mindedness they really are.

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

I'm pretty single-minded, unlike a lot of directors who miraculously seem to be holding six projects in their hand at a given time and juggling them accordingly.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

I've always been bloody single minded, which is probably why I've been in the game so long.