Gretchen Rubin Quotes

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I'm very good at blocking out noise.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

Outside the golf course, I feel the pressure, and I feel what everybody else is feeling. But on the golf course, it's just the golf ball and clubs. And when I have that, it just puts a lot of pressure off of me. It just makes me very calm looking at it, yeah.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

I try to meditate.

I don't listen to music when I ski - I find it distracting - but I will sing to myself before I go to just get my mind out of what I'm doing and relax a little bit.

Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

I tune everything out.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.