"You must be single minded. Drive for..." - Quote by George S Patton
You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.
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“Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?”
“I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!”
“Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.”
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“She turned the key, never taking her eyes from him.”
“Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.”
“Don't spread patriotism too thin.”
More on Determination
“Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.”
“I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”
“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”