Daryn Kagan Quotes

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.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

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.'

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

The mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably - if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

I don't know how you work on concentration. You are either born with it or you're not. And I was definitely not born with it.

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

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.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.