Joshua Ledet Quotes

The outside noise is something I try not to listen to.

I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

I think about work 24 hours a day. But when you fly a helicopter, for that hour or two you can't think about anything else.

It frustrates me when my mind wanders and when I end up reading the same words again and again.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

If I'm doing a scene that requires a lot of focus, I'll just take myself away and do what I have to do.

I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

I am not a multi-tasker. When I do one thing, I fully concentrate on it and leave the other thing aside.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

I'm very good at blocking out noise.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly.

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.