Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes

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.'

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.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

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.

The F-word here is focus.

Concentration may be my weak point.

I used to listen to 'Woman's Hour' every morning, but I've discovered that I can't have words on when I'm working.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Here you come again, looking better than a body has a right to.

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.

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

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

If I'm improvising and I'm not doing well it's because I'm not listening very well. Either I'm overly concerned with something or I'm drifting or maybe I'm too stoned but I'm not getting a clear signal.

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.