H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

You can't work on 15 problems 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.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Focus on what needs to be done that day. Don't think too far ahead. Once you start thinking too far ahead, you get distracted by things that don't matter on that day.

If I dabble in too many things and don't focus on channelizing my energy into one thing, I might mess it up.

I think the right way to work is by focusing on each task at hand and then move forward.

If you get into emotions, then it disturbs your work. Sometimes you focus on what's less important and not the main thing.

I try not to schedule too many meetings. That's one of the things I learned in corporate America - that you can spend your days having meetings and never actually have time to work.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film.

He who commences many things finishes but few.

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.

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

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

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

I don't have time for any nonsense.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.