Judd Trump Quotes

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

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 find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

When you think you're listening to several conversations at once, they tell me, you may really simply be time sharing - that is, listening a little bit to this one, a little bit to that one.

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

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.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.