Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

Attention is the material I work with.

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

My attention span is very short.

I'm not good at concentrating.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

My attention span was not great.