Lynsey Addario Quotes

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

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

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

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

I always tell myself, 'When I'm working on my record, I won't cut my hair.' I get so focused on the music that I'm not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner.

I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist.

I want to focus on my training and leave no room for distraction. So, reality-tv shows are a no-no.

I'm the kind of guy that I cannot just lock myself in the room and just think tennis for 24 hours.

During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

I focus on each leg and not what the score is.

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

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.