Welcome to Just One Thing Quotes! In the pursuit of growth, sometimes all it takes is just one thing a single idea, insight, or perspective shift to ignite transformation. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, motivation, or simply a moment of reflection, you’ve come to the right place.
In this collection, we curate powerful quotes that encapsulate the essence of just one thing. From renowned thinkers, philosophers, and leaders to everyday individuals who’ve experienced profound moments of clarity, these quotes offer nuggets of wisdom to ponder and integrate into your journey of personal and professional development.
Below, you’ll find a treasure trove of quotes on this very topic. Feel free to copy them, pair them with imagery that speaks to you, or experiment with different fonts to make them your own. Let these words serve as reminders of the potential for growth that lies within each of us.
A lot of people ask me to produce or direct, but I don’t think I’m qualified. It’s hard enough for a person to do just one thing well in their life. I don’t want to do too much. Gong Li
A person’s life is hopefully more than just one thing. Tab Hunter
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. Paulo Coelho
Sometimes I think you do the things you think are best at the time for what you need to take care of, and then just one thing leads to another thing. And one day you’re there going, ‘How did I get here? It wasn’t my ultimate plan, but I’m here.’ Aron Eisenberg
As a person, I’m not just one thing, so it would be silly to just play one type of role. Harris Dickinson
I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn’t have been able to meet. Cary Fukunaga
I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we’re not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors. Rachel Roy
Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. Gene Simmons
I never wanted to do just one thing. There’s even other things in comedy that I want to do. For me, it’s always been that I have to have the vision first. Craig Robinson
I have a company attitude about my work. I don’t like to do just one thing; I like to do a lot of things. Jack O’Brien
About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing. Joan of Arc
I wanna be involved in everything, not just one thing. Mustard
I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don’t want to do just one thing for the rest of my life. Daniel Bryan
There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time. Lauren Conrad
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
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans. Jeremy Hardy
As an actor, these kinds of big-comedic-centerpiece characters is just one thing that I love to do. Ari Graynor
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things. Naomi Scott
We all have different sides; nobody is just one thing. Lotte Verbeek
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost. Peter York
Video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun! Fun for everyone. Satoru Iwata
The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, ‘How did I ever participate in that?’ Diane Lane
I’m not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible. Cameron Dallas
I’ve never been satisfied with doing just one thing. I was never only an actress, or a TV anchor or whatever. Simi Garewal
I’m not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it’s directing videos, making beats, making music, performing. Travis Scott
The Internet is not just one thing, it’s a collection of things – of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language. James H. Clark
All Korean food is not just one thing. Roy Choi
I really don’t look at myself as just one thing. I’m kind of scattered and like to have my hands in a lot of different projects. It makes me who I am. Jessica Simpson
I am more than just one thing. I think my acting has helping my dancing, and vice versa. And I write. Paula Kelly
There’s just one thing I can’t figure out. My income tax! Nat King Cole
When we’re not shooting ‘Ballers,’ we’re always on the hunt for other work. As actors, we’ve never satisfied with just one thing. Jazmyn Simon
I’ll never get stuck in the corner doing just one thing. Da Brat
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything. Arundhati Roy
A woman is not just one thing. Shriya Saran
Entrepreneurship is just one thing that needs to be in schools. Theo Paphitis
Real people – everyone is not just one thing. Reed Morano
I like to vary my workouts as doing just one thing gets monotonous and I get bored. Madhura Naik
I love music. I love filmmaking. I love law enforcement. I love doing a lot of the green work that I do, the charity work that I do, and I don’t think that any one person has to be just one thing. Steven Seagal
With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it’s not just one thing. Marti Noxon
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further. Wernher von Braun
I think I enjoy my life doing multiple things, I would be easily bored if I did just one thing. Tisca Chopra
One thing that people outside Chicago need to understand is that the city is not just one thing. It is one city, but it is huge and sprawling. And historically, it has been one of America’s most segregated cities. W. Kamau Bell
Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That’s what I continue to love about the work. Sada Thompson
You don’t have to be just one thing. I think that applies to women in front of and behind the camera. Nahnatchka Khan
I think I’m fairly good with money, but I’ve developed some strange tics – in shops I don’t like to go to the counter unless I’ve got at least two things to buy. If I’m walking around with just one thing in my hand I’ll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn’t seem like a proper purchase. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I do a lot of things because if you do just one thing… like, if you run too much, everything just gets loose. You lose weight, but you get loose, and you want to be strong, have muscles. Isabeli Fontana
In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn’t do just one thing. Barry Bostwick
My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she’s been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman… and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because… she probably just had too much energy. Blake Lively
I can focus on just one thing – that’s basketball. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I’ve been lucky to do that. Ally Walker
A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored. Monica Bellucci
Because too many times in life there’s just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I’m always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time. Mike Singletary
I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what’s going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We’re strong in this. We’ve come a long way, and life is not just one thing. Mary J. Blige
I’ve never done just one thing, I’ve never been able to. I just like to know all pieces of the puzzle because it just makes you a better artist. Jerrika Hinton
I wake up thinking about it, I eat thinking of it, and I train thinking all my life is around just one thing, and that’s to become the best fighter in the world. That’s it. Yair Rodriguez
You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off. Aretha Franklin
I’m hoping to dive into the producing aspect of this industry. I don’t want to limit myself to just one thing, so I kind of want to dip my toe in every field and see what clicks with me. Sistine Stallone
I become mad when I work. It’s like a fever that grows; I don’t need to choose just one thing. Alessandro Michele
Randall Park and Ali Wong, they are so many things; they’re not just one thing, they’re bigger than just their identity. Nahnatchka Khan
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. Charlie Chaplin
There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope. Zoketsu Norman Fischer
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone. Martina Navratilova
I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. Kevin Bacon
I never want to be just one thing – I want to be multidimensional. Katy Perry
The reason that there is a lapsed fan is because the wrestling that people want to see isn’t out there, and it isn’t just one thing they are missing it is a lot of things that they are missing. Tony Khan
Nobody thought that I could become a professional. I was not that good. It was really just one thing I had fun doing. But it was never realistic for me to become a professional until I became 17 or maybe 18. Mats Hummels
Focus. It’s powerful to do just one thing and pour all your energy into it. Gil Penchina
I don’t believe really good plays – interesting plays, complicated plays – can mean just one thing to every single person in the audience. Joe Mantello
I love what I do and being in front of the camera. But I never want to limit myself to just one thing and just venture out into new things. Kyla Pratt
I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they’re hungry. They want it bad. Sam’s the only one that’s had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad. Latrell Sprewell
I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it’s all just one thing. Jennifer Lopez
I’ve never wanted to do just one thing. I don’t have an attention span for that. I can focus really well on one thing – what’s in front of me. Christopher Jackson
If you want to eat well and be healthy, there are so many different options now, and you can make a big difference even if it’s committing to just one thing. Anna Getty
I’m part of a generation that’s saying, ‘I don’t want to do just one thing, and I’m going to do things the way I want.’ Sarah Gadon
I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn’t want to do just one thing. Christopher Nolan