Mark Twain Quotes

I'm very wholehearted. I want to concentrate on one thing in my life at one time.

The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

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.

Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

Grit may carry risk because it's about putting all your eggs in one basket, to some extent.

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.

When I am doing something I give it 100 per cent. I work on it, do it and go onto the next thing.

My main focus is, 'What can I do today to help the team win the ballgame?' You have those blinders on. It helps you focus.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

When I started, I decided to devote my life to it and not get sidetracked by all the other bullshit life has to offer

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

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.

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

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

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.