When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.

You must stay focused, concentrating on the work at hand. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism and spends his energies upon that.

For him who has no concentration there is no tranquility.

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

By concentration is meant to know that all dharmas (elements of existence), from the very beginning have no nature of their own. They neither come into nor go out of existence. Because they are caused by illusion and imagination, they exist without real existence. They are only the one mind, whose substance admits no differentiation. Those who hold this view can stop the flow of erroneous thought. This is called concentration. (pg. 398, from 'A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy,' translated and compiled by Wing Tsit-Chan).

Give me a man who says this one thing I do and not these fifty things I dabble in.

Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.