Katherine Johnson Quotes

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

You need to pay attention to the little things as well as the big things.

The best thing anybody ever told me about acting - and I think it's probably true for life, generally - is listen. You've really got to watch, and you've really got to listen. Not see and hear.

Attention is the material I work with.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Attention to detail - Sherlock certainly has that, and my memory is pretty good - but not as good as his.

Concentration may be my weak point.

My father could look straight ahead but concentrate on something on the very edge of his vision, almost nearly behind him.

A lot of what acting is is paying attention.

Look with all your eyes, look.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that sort of recall, of emotional memory and images of things, just tastes of things.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.

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

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.'

If you're really in the process of photographing, you are absolutely aware. You are looking.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.