Petrarch Quotes

A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don't think I'm qualified. It's hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don't want to do too much.

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.

I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making.. certainly never one in manufacturing.. who was interested in many concerns.

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

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

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.

There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.

A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

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.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

I believe in doing what I am best at.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

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.