Shawn Michaels Quotes

I cannot say yes to too many things. I am better off giving attention to one thing at a time.

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

Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately.

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.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

When I do something, I do it for the specified amount of time, and then I do something else.

It's incredibly hard to get meaningful work done when your workday has been shredded into work moments.

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.

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

Your life is too important to give it to distractions.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

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

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

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.

If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

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.