Heidi Julavits Quotes

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

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

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.

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.

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

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 only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

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.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

I don't focus well angry.

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.

My toughest opponent is me. My mind has a tendency to wander during bouts. I tend to focus on things other than the bout. I have to work at staying motivated, getting my head right.

When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that's when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls.

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.