Quotes About Divided Attention

#1. Full concentration brings relaxation and joy. It is the struggle of divided attention that brings a great deal of the misery that we associate with jobs we don't like.

Eknath Easwaran

#2. Nothing worthwhile ever came from divided attention.

Chris Matakas

#3. Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

Janine Di Giovanni

#4. We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding change in your brain maps [lasting changes].

Norman Doidge

#5. I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

Kenny Guinn

#6. Dying wasn't the joke, it was the punchline, the final guffaw, the crack-up, when your listeners' eyes should be streaming and your woman pees in her pants with laughing. You had to live with sufficient panache that the punchline worked.

Jane Messer

#7. I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Van Morrison

#8. I have never played a superhero in real life and I would imagine it is very different Voiceover is super easy. You just come in and do a bunch of versions of it and then the animators and directors on that side of the movie put your performance together.

Jeremy Sisto

#9. Time becomes meaningless without memory.

Jon Edgell

#10. The world can be divided between people who can get a waiter's attention and those who can't.

Jonathan Carroll

#11. The wind blew the dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang.

Paul Bowles

#12. Multitasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.

Walter Brueggemann

#13. Her attention remained divided between the page in her hand and, fifty feet away, the closed bedroom door.

Ian McEwan

#14. 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.

Suzi Quatro

#15. She had known that being with Clay would be good, that it would eclipse the other times into nothingness, but this was beyond good, beyond anything. All she could think was - no wonder women liked sex. But of course, this was nothing so simple as sex. This was ... Oh, man.

Nalini Singh

#16. Pia divided her attention between the scenery outside and studying her son's triangular head with the slender, graceful snout. He was perfectly formed, with every detail that Dragos's dragon form had, only in miniature.

Thea Harrison

#17. was a quiet flight, Ethan's attention divided between staring out his window and glancing back through

Blake Crouch

#18. [Brion calls his working relationship with West a natural fit.] His knowledge and understanding of records across the board is great, ... That's the reason why we got along: We don't see music as something that happens in one genre.

Jon Brion

#19. Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality.

Sherry Turkle

#20. Everything he knew was with a girl. Like reciting a learned lesson, something he could do because he had to. This - this was new. And exciting. And primal and raw and right.

Brigid Kemmerer

#21. The virus is moving quite substantially into new locations. My attention is pretty much equally divided between Europe, the southern Balkans and Black Sea area, Africa and south Asia.

David Nabarro

#22. Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation.

Frederick Lenz