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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Work, Ruins, Interest

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• If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Focus, Secret

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• 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.

  George Matthew Adams

  Men, Together, Force

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.20, Ravenio Books

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• The time is always right to do what is right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "This Dallas Boy's MLK Jr. Speech Is Such A Sweet Message For Today's World" by Sarah Friedmann, www.bustle.com. January 2018.

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• Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

  Brian Tracy

  Important, Firsts, Lists

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• I'm kind of ADD. So I try to do one thing at a time. Otherwise, I would be sort of scattered and won't be 100% where I need to be for certain things.

  Drake Doremus

  Trying, Would Be, Add

  Source: collider.com

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• If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

  Emmet Fox

  Inspiration, People, Would Be

  Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

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• Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

  Mark Twain

  Cases, Teach, One Thing

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.112, Courier Corporation

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• I'm the kind of person who likes to focus on one thing at a time. I'll focus on my skiing and then when I get to the bottom of my run and the cameras are on me, I'll focus on what I need to say, and then I'll focus that night on recovering and getting ready for the next day.

  Nick Goepper

  Running, Night, Next Day

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. February 2014.

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• Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Yoga, Giving, Focus

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• Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. Cultivate the habit of doing one thing at a time with quiet deliberateness. Always allow yourself a sufficient margin of time in which to do your work well. Frequently examine your working methods to discover and eliminate unnecessary tension. Aim at poise, repose, and self-control. The relaxed worker accomplishes most.

  Horatio Dresser

  Self, Quiet, Unnecessary

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• I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Years, Giving, Entrepreneur

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• Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

  Samuel Smiles

  Time, Accomplish, Persons

  Samuel Smiles (1868). “Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles”, p.225

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• That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

  J. G. Holland

  Positive Life, Positive Inspirational, Positive Outlook

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• Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sorry, Memories, Thinking

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• You learn from music, from watching great athletes at work - how disciplined they are, how they move. You learn these things by watching a shortstop at work, how he concentrates on one thing at a time. You learn from classic music, from the blues and jazz, from bluegrass. From all this, you learn how to sustain a great line without bringing in unnecessary words.

  Ernest Gaines

  Moving, Athlete, Crafts

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• Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

  Max Picard

  Discipline, Meditation, One Thing

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• I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Trying, Wells, My Time

  Source: www.stylist.co.uk

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• I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

  Luis von Ahn

  Focus, Trying, Able

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• Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Important, Done

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• 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.

  Og Mandino

  Humor, Men, Focus And Concentration

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• I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

  Eli Roth

  Writing, Kind, Department

  "Eli Roth 'Furious' Over 'Hostel' Pirates: 'I Don't Want Those Fans,' He Says". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 17, 2007.

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• There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.

  Nhat Hanh

  Worry, Bills, Problem

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.

  LeVar Burton

  Guy, One Thing

  "LeVar Burton's App at the End of the Rainbow". The Root Interview, www.theroot.com. April 08, 2012.

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