Samantha Power Quotes

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

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

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

The F-word here is focus.

It's better to do one thing at a time and give your full concentration.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

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.'

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

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

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.

I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

I am not a multi-tasker. When I do one thing, I fully concentrate on it and leave the other thing aside.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

If your feet are in Fresno, Calif., that's where your head needs to be. That's where your mind needs to be. You don't need to be thinking about anything else other than the next game you're going to play.

You have to focus on your job, and if you focus on your job, you block everything out.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.