Walter Lippmann Quotes

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

When I'm working, it's just about doing the best I can with whatever dialogue is in front of me today. You can't worry about the other thing.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don't want to bring any new distractions into your life.

I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.