I'd always been insecure. Being the fourth of five kids means attention is divided five ways, and to do this equally is impossible. I grew up feeling like the little orphan in the family, the one who didn't fit in.
I always had my feet in two places when I was doing amateur dance in Seattle.
In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we're planning what we'll say next, some exciting story of our own.
The greatest respect you can give your political adversaries is to give them your undivided attention. If you want them to hear you, you have to be willing to hear them.
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
Liberals have many tails and chase them all.
I think I couldn't balance my marriage and my mother's deteriorating health. I realized it was unfair to my husband to have my divided attention. I understood he deserved better and should go for that. He deserved the attention of a partner, not another headache, and I didn't want to share my time with anyone else but my mother.
I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.
[Advising a member of his cabinet on handling the cabinet: Never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.
A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.
Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.
I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.
The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.
It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go.
I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.
It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
