Single Mindedness Quotes

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Terry Pratchett
“The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency...”
Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

Rati Tsiteladze
“When a person understands this setting into single- mindedness well, his affairs will pann out. Loyalty is also contained within this single- mindedness.”
Rati Tsiteladze

Habeeb Akande
“The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission.”
Habeeb Akande

Agatha Christie
“This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.”
Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

Alison Weir
“An objective viewpoint was beyond her; she was single-minded to a fault.”
Alison Weir, The Children of Henry VIII

E.R. Eddison
“The world journeyeth to its silly will, but I fare alway with my purpose before me.”
E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

A.D. Aliwat
“The rest: be damned.”
A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

Gordon Rennie
“Warboss Badthug: Sneaky gitz! They’re kounter-attacking our kounter-attack!”
Gordon Rennie, Deff Skwadron