Yes, I agree with your interpretation. It may help to read the entire sentence, indeed the entire essay.
"To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable,
we have of course to control ourselves.
We must not squander our powers,
helplessly and ignorantly,
squirting half the house in order
to water a single rose-bush;
we must train them, exactly and powerfully,
here on the very spot."
http://www.for68.com/new/2006/7/sw1155292558102760029744-0.htm
We must not squander our power, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush (1).”
I was thinking that this quote means to focus on one thing at a time. Is there anything else I am missing from it. It's from Virginia Woolf; essay "how should one read a book?"
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