Quintilian Quotes

If I dabble in too many things and don't focus on channelizing my energy into one thing, I might mess it up.

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.

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.

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

If I only concentrated on one thing, I would limit myself in life.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

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

It's better to focus on one film rather than take up two or three films at the same time.

Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

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

I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.

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 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.

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.

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.

The F-word here is focus.