Uninterrupted Attention Quotes

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

Focus. It's powerful to do just one thing and pour all your energy into it.

Nothing can distract me.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

Focusing on one thing can be tough, and people with fewer options are more apt to concentrate on what they're doing. There's probably something to hunger.

True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.

It feels, to me, when you're with someone you really love, you never look at your phone.

I'm happiest when I'm with my daughter and I don't have any distractions with my phone going off.

Freedom from mental distraction equals power.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.