Richelle Mead Quotes

What is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.

Sad to say, multi-tasking is beyond me. I read one book at a time all the way through. If I'm reviewing the book, I have to write the review before I start reading any other book. I especially hate it when the phone rings and interrupts my train of thought.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.

I can't sit still for 10 minutes.

I haven't ever really relied on relationships with guys. They come around and it's cool, but it's never been a big thing. I guess I've just been really distracted by work.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

Many people feel they must multi-task because everybody else is multitasking, but this is partly because they are all interrupting each other so much.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.

As soon as you start figuring out what you're going to do, something will interrupt it.

When you don't have an interruption, there's a flow, so it's easier to memorize. Monologues are easier to memorize than dialogue.

You can be watching the greatest film in the world, and if you hear your neighbor getting into a fight, you're at the window.

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.

Drama gets in the way of getting work done.

She probably gave up and started playing Minesweeper." [...] We reached the cafe and found Sydney bent over her laptop, with a barely eaten Danish and what was probably her fourth cup of coffee. We slid into seats beside her. "How's it—hey! You ARE playing Minesweeper!

The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.

Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

I do get massively distracted when I've got someone in my life, which I can't afford to do right now...besides, no one treats me as well as I do.

Do not be distracted from what we face.