Focus Loss Quotes

Censorship no longer works by hiding information from you; censorship works by flooding you with immense amounts of misinformation, of irrelevant information, of funny cat videos, until you're just unable to focus.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

I had a goal. I was on a mission. And somewhere along the line I lost sight of what I was supposed to be doing. I got out of my training program.

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

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

I am constantly distracted by my own brain when I've completed a paragraph, realized I don't know what comes next, and start opening a browser tab without even realizing it.

When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.

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.

Distractions can take us in an exciting direction but most often borrow our attention briefly without much resistance and take their sweet time giving it back. Distractions lure us in with an easy escape and then trick us by stealing our attention.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration.

Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.

Email is having an increasingly pernicious effect. Not only is it having a perceptible effect on productivity, it's skewing what it is we focus on. The immediate increasingly crowds out the important.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.