Reggie Watts Quotes

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.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

When I model I pretty much go blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

Presence is in the eye and ear and gut of the beholder. When you are totally present in a conversation or in a meeting, others around you perceive you as totally focused on the matter at hand and on being of value to them.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.

I don't concentrate on if a moment is scary or not. That's not my job.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

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.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

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.

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

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.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

If you're onstage thinking about what you're going to eat when you get offstage, it's time to finish.

I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.