His single-minded concentration on achieving his goals, coupled with a sharp intelligence, allowed him to accomplish much.
We have seen how their hostility to the strikers of 1911-14 grew in intensity and how their single-minded concentration on the vote pushed every other issue out of their heads.
But there are many other less obvious examples of such externalities, such as the anxiety caused to workers' lives by unregulated labour markets, or the general undermining of values and common decency produced by the single-minded concentration on profit maximisation.
In practice, however, this distinction often proves artificial, and even the most single-minded concentration on a text may be informed by outside knowledge, while many notable works of criticism combine discussion of texts with broad arguments about the nature of literature and the principles of assessing it.
The inventor believed that true creativity came from a single-minded concentration on the issue under consideration – and any distraction would only take you further from your goal.
He systematically criticises Kantian aesthetics for its narrow-minded concentration on the subjectivity of momentary pleasures and offers in its place a substantial reconstruction of the cognitive content of art's address.
Four-year-old Four-year-old Glavines fathas's perfectionist tendencies, his single-minded concentration and his cellphone number.
The shoulders parted, and the officer, whose beret hardly reached the chins of the Americans, was startled out of his single-minded concentration.
As a lawyer, Cleveland became known for his single-minded concentration and dedication to hard work.
I neither cared about nor believed in the revolution, lost as I was in single-minded, beady-eyed concentration on the self and its expansions.
Goldman Sachs, which I own, has a corporate culture embracing a single-minded work ethic and almost selfless concentration on teamwork to achieve goals that are worldwide in scope.
