Don Mattingly Quotes

I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

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

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.

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

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

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.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

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.

The F-word here is focus.

Concentration may be my weak point.

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.

I focus on the team and I block out all the outside media stuff, because it's so irrelevant and uncontrollable.

The outside noise is something I try not to listen to.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

When I'm not worrying about what other people want, that's when I do the best work.

I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.