Morfydd Clark Quotes

My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

When I perform and the crowd is cheering, there's a ringing noise in my head. I'm just zoned in, and even though I know there are people watching me, all I hear is this ringing inside of me.

For some reason, I can really tune in in the majors, and I have no idea why. They really get my attention.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

When I perform live, I'm doing a lot, but I kind of black out. I don't think about it too much.

There are times in the game when you have lapses. It just means you're not as locked in as when you first get in or at the end of the game.

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.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.

On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

The old cliché in theater is, if you’re nervous, pick up a prop, which will immediately take you outside of your mind.

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

Attention is the material I work with.