Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.

When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

For me, meditation's hard because I feel like I have developed 'cultural attention-deficit disorder,' where, because we have so much stimulation, I feel like I have trouble focusing on things for very long. So when I try to meditate, my brain gets so scattered.

I've got rid of the ADD, but I do find it hard to concentrate sometimes.

When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.

Especially when I'm nervous, my mind is running a mile a minute. My ADHD speaks for me before I can speak for me.