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We have to do one thing at a time. We can't go - and I watched Lindsey Graham, he said, I have been here for 10 years fighting. Well, he will be there with that thinking for another 50 years. He won't be able to solve the problem.
Sep 13, 2025
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.
Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.
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.
I've always been the sort of guy who's happiest doing more than one thing at a time.
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.
Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
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.
I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.
To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.
Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.
Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.
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.
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.
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.
I can't really work on more than one thing at a time
YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.
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.
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
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.
Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.
In effect, dividing your attention means that neither (or none) of the things you're working on is really getting the full effect of your intelligence, and that it in the end takes you longer than it would if you did one thing at a time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world
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.
Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
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.
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.
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.
We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.
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.
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].
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The real achiever do one thing at a time.
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.