Focus Issue Quotes

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.

When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

I've always had a bad attention span.

I'm so ADD.

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

My attention span was not great.

The eyes get lost in 3-D. With 3-D, your eyes are looking for the plane of focus, right? And the problem is, when you do quick cuts, your eyes can't find it.

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

When the surf is really good, it's hard for me to concentrate on work. So I really have to watch when and where I surf - I won't get anything done if I get the fever. Then it's like I come into work and I'm wet and waterlogged and ready for lunch.

3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.

I don't use the Internet, as I don't like living with lots of distractions. I have tried, but I found it a hindrance. as my sense of priorities goes out of the window and it pulls me out of my writing, particularly with email. I'd sit there for hours just replying to emails.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.

I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

Academically I was never that great and I was not really into school. I don't know, I just really had a problem focusing but singing always came naturally.

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

I'm kind of a distractible guy.

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.

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