Frank Vogel Quotes

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

I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

The outside noise is something I try not to listen to.

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

I tune everything out.

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

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

I write in a noisy, distracting world so the books can be read there.

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.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

Turn off your cell phone. Honestly, if you want to get work done, you’ve got to learn to unplug. No texting, no email, no Facebook, no Instagram. Whatever it is you’re doing, it needs to stop while you write... A lot of the time (and this is fully goofy to admit), I’ll write with earplugs in - even if it’s dead silent at home.

Nothing can distract me.

At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

When I write, I try to turn my Internet off so I can't procrastinate through the Internet, but then I just get deeply involved in whatever I have just on my computer.

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

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.

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.