Patricia Heaton Quotes

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

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.

I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

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

I was really not into school. Everything was distracting to me. I would have a beat in my head or a song. I was always not paying attention, just daydreaming.

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.

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.

I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

I let my mind wander and it didn't come back.

Some players listen with one ear only.

My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.

When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

Drivers are not good at having nothing to do.

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.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.