Best attention & brain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It is complete attention, which means giving all your energy, the energy of the brain, your heart, everything, to attending.”

Giving Heart Mean Certain Energy Attention Brain Focus Wander Concentration Attending

Book:The Flame of Attention

Source: The Flame of Attention

“The brain scientists are the wave of the future in the financial world. If you seek to maximize understanding, whether you're in academia or in the investment community, you'd better pay serious attention to them.”

Ifs World Understanding Community Money Pay Attention Brain Serious Scientist Investment Financial Wave Academia

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“Attention for children is so much about input, and the brain can only filter so much - I don't know how many millions of messages that come through the brain, and we can only filter so much through it.”

Knows Children Attention Brain Millions Know How Messages Filters Input

Author:Goldie

“In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.”

World Past Father Attention Brain My Thoughts Bronx

Author:Pete Wentz

“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].”

Ability Attention Brain Tasks Praise Concentration Maps Lasting Divided Divides Lasting Change

Author:Norman Doidge

“After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.”

Ifs Needs Long Important Effort Pay Attention Brain Knowledge Novel Youth Periods Areas Critical Lasting Surprising Initials Long Lasting

Author:Norman Doidge

“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.”

“Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.”

Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“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.”

Should Shows Attention Brain Study Focus Stronger Chosen Pay Attention Workout Refocus

Author:Daniel Goleman

“They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.”

Pain Attention Brain Doubt Swear Sober Oath Truth Prevails

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

“It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions.”

Attention Brain Essentials Endless Repetition Rehab Tailors

Book:One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

Source: One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir

“If I could get their attention long enough, I felt they would see beneath the boobs and find the heart, and that they would see beneath the wig and find the brains. I think one big part of whatever appeal I possess is the fact that I look totally one way and that I am totally another. I look artificial, but I'm not.”

Ifs Thinking Way Looks Heart Long Enough Facts Bigs Felt Attention Brain Authenticity One Way Appeals If I Could Artificial Wigs

Author:Dolly Parton

“If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.”

Ifs Knows Feels Body Energy Attention Brain Focus Flow Stronger Shut Up Somewhere Else Relentless Transfers

Author:Jason Mraz

“I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.”

Way Trying Stories Dream Ability Attention Brain Models

Author:Amy Hardie

“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.”

Long Term Emotion Attention Brain Practice Study Meditation Blood Produce Flow Function Significant Long Term Related Andrew Cerebral Alterations Blood Flow

Book:Hallucinations

Source: Hallucinations

“In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.”

Mind Self Simple Pay Attention Brain Principles Creatures Who We Are Abstraction

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes”

Attention Brain Creativity Greater Findings Solutions Built Innovation Patterns Attributes Mechanism

Book:Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.”

Way Doe Self Feelings Turns Process My Own Attention Brain Consciousness Cases Example Particular Supposed To Be Self Conscious Foreheads Self Consciousness

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.”

People Thinking Attention Brain Focus Subjects Genius Intelligence

Author:Esther Hicks

“The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect with as babies. It is the focus of our attention in our relationships with each other. The face and the human figure express all we are. Everything else - architecture, art, even landscape - we usually understand in relation to us.”

Humans Art Two Faces Attention Brain Focus Figures Baby Relation Architecture Landscape Our Relationship Dots Human Faces

Author:Dave McKean

“Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.”

Way Social Causes Attention Brain Release Chemicals Primates Dopamine Endorphins

Author:Keith Henson

“Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.”

Long Action Term Attention Brain Release Long Term Chemicals Short Term

Author:Keith Henson

“The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt a lot of fear in early stages, when they're just realizing what's happening. But then things really seemed to be at their peak of terror, the fear went away. You can imagine why that's useful. At that moment your brain needs to focus all its attention on surviving, so people will feel a sense of calm as their brain tries to sort out a plan.”

People Needs Feels Trying Moments Felt Realizing Attention Brain Focus Imagine Plans Worst Stage Happenings Calm Terror Consistent That Moment Surprising Thread Surviving Worst Moments

Author:Amanda Ripley

“We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections”

Knows Attention Brain Focus Information Connections Focused Maps Focused Attention

Book:Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Source: Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

“Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.”

Reality Levels Attention Brain Serious Obstacles Familiar Breathing Urges Rejects Totality Uncontrollable Primates Uncontrollable Urge

Author:E. J. Gold

“Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.”

World Attention Brain

Author:Margaret Mead

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