Top 100 Do One Thing Quotes
#1. Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Julian Barnes
#2. Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.
Marlo Thomas
#4. If you only do one thing, collect rainwater ...
Bill Mollison
#5. Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.
Harold Klemp
#6. Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.
Clarence Darrow
#8. Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back
Kya Aliana
#9. Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." "Miss
Harper Lee
#10. Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Arthur Phillips
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
Jhonen Vasquez
#14. A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
Mary Schmich
#15. You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.
Jonathan Miller
#16. If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.
January Jones
#17. To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.
Robert G. Thompson
#18. Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.
Ernie Banks
#19. Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.
LeVar Burton
#20. Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only.
Robert Shea
#21. After you do one thing, you've got one thing done.
Mike Caro
#22. One of the reasons you're so terrified about figuring out what you're gonna do with your life is that you think you're only gonna be able to do one thing.
John Green
#23. Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.
Max Picard
#24. A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.
Charlie Trotter
#25. If you can only do one thing today, choose to help someone in need. There are many who are less fortunate. Take some time to lend a helping hand. You will be surprised by how much you will uplift their spirit.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#26. 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
#27. The way you do one thing is the way you do everything!
Anonymous
#28. 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
#29. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.
Flannery O'Connor
#30. As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
Julie Burchill
#31. Do one thing today to move yourself towards a big goal. Repeat tomorrow, and the next day. You'll be surprised at how fast you'll attain it!
Lorraine Reguly
#32. Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.
Denise Van Outen
#33. It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
Quintilian
#34. Don't think about the writing process too much. Just do one thing: tell the motherfucking story.
Don Roff
#36. When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.
Yoko Ono
#37. Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes
that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.
Steve Jobs
#38. The problem with people is that they try to do everything but don't do one thing well. Focus more energy on the activity you excel in. Capitalize on your strengths.
Bianca Frazier
#39. If he could do one thing, he could run. He had spent his life running, secrets spitting at his back.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#40. 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.
Deepak Chopra
#41. Everyone can help, everyone can do one thing. Start by your heart: what you want.
Somaly Mam
#42. Bush didn't do one thing wrong....
He did everything wrong.
Syed Ali
#43. It's better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.
Heather Hart
#44. - I want to atone -
He couldn't of course. Nothing he did now could atone fully for what he had done. But he could do one thing. Just one thing.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#45. Survival of all or none.
One raindrop raises the sea.
Weapons are enemies even to their owners.
Give more, take less.
Others first, self last.
Observe, listen, and learn.
Do one thing at a time.
Sing every day.
Exercise imagination.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.
James Gurney
#46. than life itself. Then Christ said: 'I will show you a simpler way. If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them. If you love, you will unconsciously fulfill the whole law.
Paulo Coelho
#47. Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.
Richard M. Nixon
#48. This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
Douglas McIlroy
#49. Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.
Somaly Mam
#50. My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don't know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.
Anne Lamott
#51. At any moment in the day, you can only do one thing at a time. And the more intentional you are about knowing what your 1 is, the more present you will be.
Rob Bell
#52. I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.
Candice Olson
#53. Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. "I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I'm weird," Eli said later. "It's like she thinks I'm a freak or something. No matter what I do, it's not 'normal' enough for her.
Alexandra Robbins
#54. during conversation faces are so expressive that they distract individuals with ASC. So people with ASC have to decide, Do I watch or listen? This is why those of us with ASC so often don't look at you when we're speaking or being spoken to. We can only do one thing at a time.
Wenn Lawson
#55. I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.
Judy Sheindlin
#56. Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.
Margaret Atwood
#57. 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
#58. Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing ... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
Campbell Scott
#59. I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.
Raekwon
#60. Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy.
Harper Lee
#61. It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.
Michael Pollan
#62. It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.
Thurman Arnold
#63. To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.
Sangharakshita
#64. When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
James Brown
#65. It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.
Gail Ann Dorsey
#66. A good way to take a baby step into the world of animal rights is to make a list of small things you can do to help your issue and work your way up to the big things. Make a promise to do one thing on your list each month.
Jenna Morasca
#67. I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing ... I like to do it 100%.
Idina Menzel
#68. I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.
Rob Corddry
#69. I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.
Coolio
#70. The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.
Iyanla Vanzant
#71. What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.
William Albert Allard
#72. I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.
Thomas Hardy
#73. The secret to achieving your goals is to take daily action towards them. Do one thing every day that brings you closer to your goal.
Akash Karia
#74. You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.
Stephen Root
#75. He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.
Dennis Rodman
#76. You can't just say NO," he said. "You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.
Flannery O'Connor
#77. 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
#78. Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.
It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.
Thomas Harris
#79. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.
Tim Ferriss
#80. I'd grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.
Philip Schultz
#81. I suppose that if I could only do one thing, a solid card effect would be pretty high on the list. That's the root of it all, sleight-of-hand. It's certainly the thing I feel most comfortable with.
Ricky Jay
#82. I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn't an actor who can just do one thing. I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.
Adam Pally
#83. Do one thing every day you don't want to do.
Mark Twain
#84. Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.
Eugene Grace
#86. I try to do one thing at a time to utilise my time well.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#87. The greatest way to get most husbands to eliminar la celulitis do one thing is to suggest that perhaps they're also old to do it.
Anne Bancroft
#88. Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.
Steve Jobs
#89. I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the other. I also have a temper.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#90. In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.
Parminder Nagra
#91. I want to do one thing and do it well.
Jan Koum
#92. If awesome things in creation become your god, the God who created those things will not own your awe. Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical
Paul David Tripp
#93. Thalia, if you don't want to be the prey anymore, then you can only do one thing. Become the hunter.
Chanda Hahn
#94. Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
Mignon McLaughlin
#95. Always do one thing less than you think you can do.
Bernard Baruch
#96. All the elements in an advertisement are primarily designed to do one thing and one thing only: get you to read the first sentence of the copy.
Joseph Sugarman
#97. Zoey feels the void waver, flex as if it will break and everything inside her will come spilling out. But then Ken's face appears in her mind and she knows if he were here right now, she would only do one thing differently. She would kill him slower.
Joe Hart
#98. Life Consists Of Many Things But You Have To Do One Thing ... And That Thing Is Living For God.
Remember You Cant Do Many Things At Once.
Cyc Jouzy
#99. But all those weeks with Nate, however fake they might have been, did do one thing for me. Whether the rest of world saw me that way, I knew now that I was strong, and I was beautiful, just the way I was. And girls like me needed gorgeous clothes too.
Alessandra Thomas
#100. Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
Cato The Elder
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