Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

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.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, he may shoot strong but never straight.

If I dabble in too many things and don't focus on channelizing my energy into one thing, I might mess it up.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

I try to keep a pretty one-tracked mind.

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

The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus.

My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

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

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

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

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.