Lack of Concentration Quotes

I get easily distracted and become a bit of a giddy giggler. I'm not good at taking myself seriously, and laughing at myself helps ease the pressure.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

One great cause of failure of young men in business is lack of concentration.

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.

Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up and can only be partially compensated by his employing his time allowance to the full.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on all the injuries she felt we'd done her. An unearned income encourages self-pity in those already prone to it.

In the past, people said I wasn't focused and didn't give it the time. That's a bunch of crap. I'm not doing anything different now than I did before.

you have not been / paying attention

Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

Some players listen with one ear only.

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

There have been too many turnovers on my part.

These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics.

When I'm not focused, I'm quite possibly one of the more clumsy people on the planet. I'll walk into doorways and coffee tables.

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems.

Of course, it would help if she could stay focused, but she had the attention span of a sick flea.’ (Sunshine)

I don't even know how to behave without my sleep. I would be a horrible person to be around - cranky.