Anonymous Quotes

If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, he may shoot strong but never straight.

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

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

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.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Pay attention to matters of importance.

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

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

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

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

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

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.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

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

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

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.

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

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.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.