Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

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.

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

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

I don't really miss anything, I'm so focussed on what I have to do - I'm so focussed on my work - that I don't miss any creature comforts.

I don't really like listening to so much rap because I like to have my mind focused on what I'm doing instead of worrying about what everybody else is doing.

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

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.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

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

I tend to be so lost in the work that I don't notice the weather. My partner will come home and say, 'Beautiful day, wasn't it?' and I'll say, 'Was it?' as I won't have noticed the real world at all.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.