Shahzia Sikander Quotes

I need complete silence when I write.

When I write I find a quiet place.

I work in silence.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

I just want to focus on one thing at a time.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

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.

I like working in silence.

I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

I'm not one of those who can listen to music and write. I need the door closed. Windows shut. Facing the wall. No birds tweeting, views of nature, and so forth.

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

I am not a multi-tasker. When I do one thing, I fully concentrate on it and leave the other thing aside.

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

It's better to do one thing at a time and give your full concentration.

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

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.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.