Ann Makosinski Quotes

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

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.

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

My attention span was not great.

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

I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.

I don't mind being distracted.

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.

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

I always interrupt work with other work, either in a small way or big way, so that's normal.

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

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

I've got no attention span.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

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

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

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.'

I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I get distracted by the television or the cats or my husband, or... you know - all of those things that make it easy to procrastinate.