Lewis Hamilton Quotes

I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.

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

I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.

Even today, I am easily distracted by reading material and will pick up articles on virtually any factual material if I have the time.

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

I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when I was little - but my attention span is poor. Takes me months to read one book.

When something comes to my mind, I finish a book within 15-20 days.

I'm not a good reader. I had to take remedial reading in school. I was a slow reader and therefore it's tough for me to stay interested in things long enough, I've read, probably, since college maybe 10 books, which is disgusting.

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 really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down.

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

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you're focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

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

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 used to read three books a day, sometimes.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

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

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

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.