George Matthew Adams Quotes

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

When I'm locked in and focused, I can do pretty much anything I want.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

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

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

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

I've always had, when I needed it, an extreme amount of focus that I could put into something. That has served me well.

You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

I cannot say yes to too many things. I am better off giving attention to one thing at a time.

Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus - it's simply learning how to focus.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

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

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.

My greatest asset now is my focus.

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.