Diane Duane Quotes

We lock ourselves away and we concentrate on what we're doing and try not to think about the madness that's surrounding it, and all the hype.

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

The damned everlasting clatter for offices makes me feel like resigning.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

It amazes me how much noise there is on a set while people are trying to focus and do their jobs. But there's some kind of order within that chaos.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

Having a 2 year old is like having a blender that you don't have the top for.

Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane

Juggling too many things can disturb the balance and throw your personal or professional life off track.

A book isn't noise to drown out other noise.

I'm so focused on the game that I hardly understand what the people sing or shout or what they do.

If you start thinking about eventualities, you lose your focus, and you can soon forget about it.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... " - Shigure Sohma

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

I can't concentrate in flats.

I'm tired of dealing with the crazies.

It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.