“To follow, without halt, one aim: There is the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) Russian ballet dancer
Source: Why We Want You To Be Rich
“To follow, without halt, one aim: There is the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) Russian ballet dancer
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.”
Lennox Lewis (1965) British-Canadian boxer
Lennox Lewis (From his Twitter account)
James Watt (1736–1819) British engineer
"Notes on Professor Robison's Dissertation on Steam-engines" (1769)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet
I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.
from Preface to Poems of Passion 1883 edition
Frederick Brotherton Meyer (1847–1929) English Baptist pastor and evangelist
The Secret of Guidance (1896)
Adam Roberts book Jack Glass: The Story of a Murderer
Part 2, Chapter 13, “Of Multitudes” (p. 238).
Jack Glass (2012)
Joseph Alois Schumpeter The Theory of Economic Development
The Theory of Economic Development (1934), Ch. 6 : The Business Cycle