Dwight L. Moody Quotes

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

I want to do one thing and do it well.

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

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

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

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

When I'm working, I'm obsessively working.

It's not how many hours you put in with a client or on a project. It's the quantity and quality of your energy - your focus and force - that determine whether that time is valuable.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

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

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.

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.

You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

You go to a contest, and it's like, 'OK, I'm here for two weeks. All my energy, time, thinking, and everything is going toward that.' Everything you're doing is building toward the score at the end.

The more focused you are, the more powerful you will be in the long run.

If I'm doing a job, I'll give it 100%, and that job gets my absolute focus, and everything else goes to the side. Then, that job is finished, I'll concentrate on the next job.

I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.

I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."

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

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.