One Thing At A Time Quotes

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance".

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• When you focus on just one thing at a time, without rushing or procrastinating, you cultivate a sense of timeless awareness that creates feelings of calm and well-being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Rushing, Focus, Feelings

  "Make Time Your Ally by Deepak Chopra". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

  Gary W. Keller

  Opportunity, Screw Ups, Multitasking

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• Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

  Gary W. Keller

  Motivation, Built, One Thing

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• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you're guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things simultaneously, it messes up your neural circuits. Focus on one thing at a time.

  Deepak Chopra

  Focus, Mindfulness, Awareness

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• The real achiever do one thing at a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Real, Achiever, One Thing

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• Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, People, Energy

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• Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

  Kevin Systrom

  Motivational, Focus, Entrepreneur

  "The Big Picture". Biography, Drama, www.imdb.com.

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• Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

  Eugene Grace

  Ifs, One Thing

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• To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

  Sangharakshita

  Art, Able, Whole

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• It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

  Og Mandino

  Focus And Concentration, Goal, World

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• Do not be discouraged because you cannot learn all at once; learn one thing
  at a time, learn it well, and treasure it up, then learn another truth and
  treasure that up, and in a few years you will have a great store of useful
  knowledge.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Years, Treasure, Discouraged

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

  Lope de Vega

  Today, Tomorrow, Can Do

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• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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  Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Hands

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Work on one thing at a time until finished.

  Henry Miller

  Writing, Finished, One Thing

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Positive, Patience

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• I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

  Jonathan Glazer

  Able, One Thing

  "Interview: Jonathan Glazer Talks The Guerilla Shoot Of His Bold ‘Under The Skin’ Starring Scarlett Johansson". Interview with Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. September 12, 2013.

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• I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Can Do

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• The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of stuff. In general, it's only really good at holding onto one thing at a time. Which is why, when we have a lot going on, we feel sort of stressed and we feel tension because the mind is busy trying to figure out what it should focus on first.

  MC Yogi

  Memories, Past, Focus

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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