Sue Perkins Quotes

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

I don't mind being distracted.

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

I'm not great with my phone. I can put it somewhere and forget about it for a few hours.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

I don't mind being distracted. I don't want to sit there in utter silence and type. If the phone rings, I usually answer it, speak for a few minutes and return to writing, or go for a walk in and out of the rooms. I don't mind a break.

There are different usage patterns - I never do email during the day. I don't multitask well at all. I don't know how to be in a meeting and participate and be on email at the same time. I do see some people do it more effectively. I've never quite figured that out.

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.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

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

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

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.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

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

I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting - if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!