One Thing At A Time Quotes - Page 3

• Your mission is to document and observe the world around you as if you’ve never seen it before.  Take notes.  Collect things you find on your travels.  Document your findings.  Notice patterns.  Copy.  Trace.  Focus on one thing at a time.  Record what you are drawn to.

  Keri Smith

  Focus, Records, World

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• Usually, whatever's in front of me is what I'm focused on and it's 100% on that and then I kind of move from one thing to the next. Like, if I go to a restaurant and I order food, I always just eat one thing at a time.

  Adam Young

  Moving, Order, Next

  "Owl City (Adam Young) Interview". Coup De Main Magazine Interview, www.fanpop.com.

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• We have to do one thing at a time. We can't be fighting ISIS and fighting [Bashar]Assad. Assad is fighting ISIS. He is fighting ISIS. Russia is fighting now ISIS. And Iran is fighting ISIS.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, Russia, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].

  Lena Horne

  Brother, Water, Black

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• I love to learn. But just going back into school because of what I do I'm so set in this path that I'm on right now and I'm so excited about it and I love doing it so much that I like to focus myself on one thing at a time.

  Hayden Panettiere

  School, Focus, Path

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.

  George C. Homans

  Dark, Unity, Social Behavior

  1961 Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms.

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• Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Children, Want, One Thing

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• I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

  Alice Hoffman

  One Thing, I Can

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• I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Thinking, Want

  FaceBook post by Sachin Tendulkar from Jun 13, 2014

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• One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Determination, Play

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.15, Createspace Independent Pub

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• If I was a little bit younger I would worry more. I'd want to do one thing at a time but now I try to do a bunch of different things at a time if I can.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Worry, Trying, Different

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• 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.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Focus And Concentration, Effort, Compromise

  Maxwell Maltz, Kelli M. Gary (1983). “PRINCIPLES CRE LVG”, Pocket

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• I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Funny, Witty, Confused

  "Character: Judge Judy". "Judge Judy", TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1996– ).

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• YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.

  Bob Hope

  Grandchildren, One Thing

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• Honestly, Jared, one thing at a time. Why are you in a well with me? This is a really bad rescue!" [...] "I called the police as I was running to the well. I'm sure they're coming." "Did they say they were coming?" Kami asked suspiciously. "Or did you shout, 'Kami's in the well!' before jumping in the well too, thus loosing your phone and making sure the police think it was some kids playing a dumb joke?" Jared paused. [...] "Alternate plan," Jared said. "Do you have a very intelligent collie who might communicate through a system of barks to your parents that little Kami is in the well?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Running, Kids, Intelligent

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• He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.

  Arundhati Roy

  Kissing, Saws, Feels

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.215, Penguin Books India

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• I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

  Natasha Hamilton

  Wedding, Children, Careers

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• My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

  William James

  Thinking, Sake, Lasts

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.

  Frank Miller

  Real, Book, Character

  "Frank Miller Talks SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR, the future of 300, Reincarnating Robocop, Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, and More at Comic-Con". Interview with Hunter Daniels, collider.com. July 28, 2014.

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• A single model enables me to focus on one thing at a time, separating design and form and color into three successive stages.

  Thomas S. Buechner

  Color, Focus, Design

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• I'm pretty much a movie-to-movie guy. It's hard for me to multitask so I feel very one-thing-at-a-time oriented and I usually just wait until a movie's done and it's premiered, then just kind of reflect on what I'm interested in my own life and let the movies come to me rather than force them.

  Drake Doremus

  Guy, Waiting, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean time management is a big factor in my life. I'm a very organized person. You can only do one thing at a time, so that's the main way I do everything. When I'm with my kids, I'm with my kids. When I'm directing a movie, I'm directing a movie. When I'm making Magic Mike, I'm making Magic Mike. So you just really have to fragment and focus.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Mean, Kids, Focus

  "Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

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• If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Thinking, Example, Wasting My Time

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• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  Fergie

  Children, Kids, Firsts

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• Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

  Grace Slick

  Jobs, Children, Men

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