Maelle Gavet Quotes

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

He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.

To be so superfocused and honed in on one thing can be good because then you get what you're supposed to get done, done but you also miss out on other things. I could have spent more time with my family, and a million other little things.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

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

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, he may shoot strong but never straight.

All my collaborators unilaterally said that I need to just stay on one idea for longer. And of course I understand that. I like to switch gears a lot, and I like this kind of sloppy attitude.

I'm never really trying to focus on one aim.

There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.

I'm lucky - I can do two things at once.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

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.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

You cannot do only one thing.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.