You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Listening isn’t hard; it’s stopping our mind from wandering that’s hard. Being in the moment isn’t hard; not thinking about the past and future all the time is hard. It’s not the noticing itself that’s hard. It’s ignoring all the noise in our environment that is hard.

Radio was theater of the mind.

More often than not, it seems that people are having thoughts, though not really thinking about what they’re thinking about — at least not in an effective way that resolves, advances, or manages the content.

You do many things at once; you read, listen to the radio, talk, smoke, eat, drink. You are the consumer with the open mouth, eager and ready to swallow everything — pictures, liquor, knowledge. This lack of concentration is clearly shown in our difficulty in being alone with ourselves. To sit still, without talking, smoking, reading, drinking, is impossible for most people. They become nervous and fidgety, and must do something with their mouth or their hands.

You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...

ways that seem increasingly elusive, if not downright impossible, if you’re working too hard. This doesn’t have to be an either-or proposition. It is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world. The art of resting the mind and the

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think