Elizabeth I Quotes

You can't evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

Conflict and opposition are as necessary as cooperation and agreement, but the scale is off balance, with conflict and opposition overweighted.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

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.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

There's always a fine line between being too focused and missing opportunities, or being too wide and taking on too many.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

A bloody battle leaves even the victor bloodied. But compromise also has its costs—particularly when it alienates the majority and is taken as a sign of weakness.

The fewer dogmas, the fewer disputes; the fewer disputes, the fewer miseries

I think the danger is to try and please everyone.

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

Discord gives a relish for concord.

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.

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."

Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog.

Why can't we all just get along?

Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.

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.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.