“Ministries that have it tend to be focused on a limited set of targets. They do a few things as if all eternity hinged on their results, and they do these things with godly excellence. Their vision is characterized by specificity. Selectivity. Exclusivity.”

“First, please note that we are not focusing here on target-market characterization. The place most crossing-the-chasm marketing segmentation efforts get into trouble is at the beginning, when they focus on a target market or target segment instead of on a target customer.”

Geoffrey Moore book Crossing the Chasm

“A life spent chasing the mythical state of being able to do everything is less meaningful than a life of focusing on a few things that count.”

Oliver Burkeman (1975) British journalist

“Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

“Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought.”

Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) American teacher and writer

“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician

“With his sharp power of vision, resolute power of action, I doubt not he could have learned to write Books withal, and speak fluently enough;—he did harder things than writing of Books. This kind of man is precisely he who is fit for doing manfully all things you will set him on doing.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“If God be in all things, as in all men, the wicked as the godly, wherein then is the state of the wicked worse than the godly? Yea, if God be in both, why have they both one title, but one wicked, another godly?”

Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667) English theologian