Mathew Knowles Quotes

I want to do one thing and do it well.

I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

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

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

Each feature I make is my focus at that time.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

I believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

The F-word here is focus.

If instead of completely focusing on what you are doing, you are racing ahead to something shinier or to the next best thing, you will not develop excellence.

My whole thing is if you want to do it, then do it. Kobe told me this, but he said, 'You don't wanna lay all your eggs in one basket, but you wanna lay all your eggs in one basket.' If you wanna do something and be great at it, that's what you're going to have to specialize in. Just take it and run.

It's better to do one thing at a time and give your full concentration.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

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

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

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

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.