Angelique Kerber Quotes

My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

You cannot be insightful if you're deluged with information.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.

But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

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.

I have always tended to over-think things and that had come into my game. That's good in certain moments but not when you have to make a quick decision.

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can't do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.

I think it works differently for everyone. Some people do amazing things with research, but for me, it just gets convoluted, and I start to think too much.

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

I think we all have really busy lives now and there's so much stimulation, there's so many artists, there's so much music, there's so much art, there's so much everything in a world it's hard to get people to focus on 12 songs of yours at once.

The outside noise is something I try not to listen to.

The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.

Our attention spans have become shorter because there are more and more claims upon them - more information, more complexity; more stories, more stuff; more.

If you start thinking about eventualities, you lose your focus, and you can soon forget about it.

When I was younger, I used to think ahead too much, and that would make me lose concentration in the match I was playing.