Mary Stewart Quotes

I've fished everywhere I've traveled.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

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.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.

The students are kept so busy and are so fascinated by what they are doing that they have neither the time nor design for antics.

I do tend to lose myself in whatever job I'm doing or hobby I'm into.

When I work on stories, I tend to lose sight of everything else. I forget to pay bills or to shave. I don't change my clothes as often as I should.

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

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.

Scoring and fishing are comparable. In both cases, you must have patience and wait for the right moment to strike power with the utmost coolness.

Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.

I love to fish.

Fishing: I don't really like it. I don't really like the expression on the fish's face.

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.