Steven Hall Quotes

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

One of my personality defects, perhaps, is that I'm rather ADD, and I work on a bunch of things at once.

I think it's just my nature. I can't work on one thing. I have to work on many things.

I think I'm too scatty.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds of irrationalities and stupid actions. I have some notion, and then I drop it because something else comes along. I'm forever darting from one side of the room to the other.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

I've always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

I don't know why, but it seems to be a common story for actors and comedians to have a tendency to be bad students and have difficulty focusing on things.

I've got no attention span.

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

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

I have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

I have the attention span of a 2-year-old. I like to jump from project-to-project.

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

Everybody thinks if you do one thing, you can't do something else. So I like the fact that I can be versatile if I want to.

I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

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.

I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.