Plato Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

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.

Sometimes it's better if you can play in only one position. You see that with other players. These guys specialise in one position and they can completely concentrate.

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.

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.

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

Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

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

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's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

The thing that you do obsessively between the ages of 13 and 18 is the thing that you stand the best chance of being world class at.

Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark.