Judy Sheindlin Quotes

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

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

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

Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you're guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things simultaneously, it messes up your neural circuits. Focus on one thing at a time.

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

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Do you, and the rest is background noise.

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

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.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

Really focusing on what I have to do right now... no matter what role I'm playing - it alleviates everything around me and makes everything a lot more simple.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

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.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can’t bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

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

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

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.'