Paulina Porizkova Quotes

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

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

I don't really think about the crowd when I am in the middle. I actually forget about the crowd, forget the money; that's exactly what I always do.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

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.

There is a part of your brain that has to stop when you're acting. You have to be in the moment and dare to fly. Words can't be on your mind.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

It's important not to think too much about what you do.

You can't be in the zone in front of 12 million people, you've got to be chill.

When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that's when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls.

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

You do your best work when you're not conscious of yourself.

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'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.

I'm the type of skater that needs to stay upbeat and relaxed, open, because if I stay quiet, I get in my head, and then I start to think too much and start to doubt.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.