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Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.

Ron Swanson

Parks and Recreation

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"Sweet Sixteen." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Norm Hiscock, directed by Michael Schur, season 4, episode 16, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2012.

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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818, letter 1.

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Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018, letter 1.

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Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 19 Sept. 1777.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Samuel Smiles

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Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 8.

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Smiles, Samuel. Self-Help, edited by Peter W. Sinnema. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 8.

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Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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Yamamoto, Tsunemomo. 葉隠 [Hagakure]. c. 1716.

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Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.