Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

Sometimes it's better if you can play in only one position. You see that with other players. These guys specialise in one position and they can completely concentrate.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

No one intellect should ever strive for distinction in more than one pursuit. Those who boast of preeminence in many arts are either divinely endowed or utterly shameless or simply mad.

The thing that you do obsessively between the ages of 13 and 18 is the thing that you stand the best chance of being world class at.

I believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark.

I don't want to be jack of all, master of none. I want to focus completely and excel as an actor with every project.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

In the long run, it's probably better to tie yourself down to one position and really become established in one area to be as good as you can in that position.

Grit, in a word, is stamina. But it's not just stamina in your effort. It's also stamina in your direction, stamina in your interests. If you are working on different things but all of them very hard, you're not really going to get anywhere. You'll never become an expert.

Focus on one thing and do one thing well.

There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.

Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.

Life isn't about trying to be an expert in everything. It's about being an expert in one thing and offering it to the world.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Do a few things at mastery versus many things at mediocrity.