Rory Bremner Quotes

In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

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.

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

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.

I tune everything out.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

I have always had trouble paying attention. When I was supposed to be at work, I'd be doodling. But then when I was home, trying to draw, I would be working on math problems. I never end up doing exactly what I should be doing at at any given time.

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

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

Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.