Luis von Ahn Quotes

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

I can't do too many things at one time.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.

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

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

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

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

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

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

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.

Time management is really key for me.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

The secret to multitasking is that it isn't actually multitasking. It's just extreme focus and organization.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.