Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

Usually, I prefer not to clarify anything that is being talked about me, but when it goes out of limits, I reply.

If I spent my career responding to critics, I'd never be where I'm at right now.

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

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

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

There isn't a lot of room for people who are thin skinned in this business.

Self-vindication never does a man any good, unless he has been assailed.

When you’re responding, you’re losing.

You’re going to be respected if you can throw a punch, but you also have to prove you can do a deal.

You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

I can get a little scattered and want to be everywhere and want to do everything for everyone.

I don't lose sleep about what people say about me. It's football.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.