Dan Hill Quotes

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

He had more on his mind than his mind could hold.

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

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

Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

Having too many ideas is not always a good thing.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus.

Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down.

My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.