Concentration Difficulty Quotes

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Normally I don't sleep much during a Test match.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

People's attention spans don't run too long these days.

I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that.

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

I tend to be really spacey, but I don't think it's because I'm unintelligent - it's just my imagination and a little bit of ADD.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

I can't conceive of nursing babies and taking care of children and writing, too. I know there are writers that do that, but I'm too single-minded. I can't stand to be interrupted, whether I'm writing a story or dressing a child.

Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

I'm not good at concentrating.

In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.