Nahnatchka Khan Quotes

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.

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

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.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.

I sometimes worry that maybe it's better to be really good at one thing than be okay at a couple things.

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.

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

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

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

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

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 was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

No one intellect should ever strive for distinction in more than one pursuit. Those who boast of preeminence in many arts are either divinely endowed or utterly shameless or simply mad.

It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.

Do one thing well, and then build from there.

I've always had this commitment to not being in one thing.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.