Ann Makosinski Quotes

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

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

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The scary part is that the attention span of a goldfish was 9 seconds, almost 13% more than us humans. That's why it's getting tougher by the day to get people to turn the page. Maybe we writers ought to try writing for goldfish!

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

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.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

The students are kept so busy and are so fascinated by what they are doing that they have neither the time nor design for antics.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

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

For some reason, I can really tune in in the majors, and I have no idea why. They really get my attention.

They made a three-hour 'Raw,' but two hours is about my time limit. I ain't got that kind of attention span.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

I always saw my peers finding some cool passion, but every time I tried one of those things, it never clicked. I would leave school and go to my theater class, and that's when I'd actually sit down and listen.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.

I've heard people say that [I have a short attention span]. I don't feel I do, because when I'm interested in something I'll stay in focus as long as it is necessary... If you get off on something I'm not very interested in, it's very easy for me to block it out. It's easy for me to block things out.

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