Best attention & concentration Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.”

“Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.”

Mind States Winning Ability Attention Health Buddhism Direct Dependent Concentration State Of Mind Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras are designs of power that tap into other levels of attention. They remind us of things in other worlds.”

World Levels Deals Attention Design Concentration Other Worlds Mantras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.”

Thinking Mind Attention Millions Focus Seeing Concentration Waiver

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention.”

Years Mind Littles Energy Numbers Attention Higher Planes Each Day Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.”

Differences Attention Concentration Centre Inattention

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.”

Ifs Wells Littles Important Matter Moments Reality Given Attention Activity Assuming Dimensions Concentration Unimportant Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters Unimportant Things

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.”

Firsts Water Pay Attention Watches Baby Picks Red Fingers Smell Circles Pay Attention Concentration Pushing Salt Breeze Thumbs Ponds Hawks Salt Water

Author:Anna Quindlen

“You must first realize the thing completely in your mind. Then grasp the brush, fix your attention so that you see clearly what you wish to paint; start quickly, move the brush, follow straight what you see before you, as the buzzard swoops down when the hare jumps out. If you hesitate one moment, it is gone.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Moments Moving Wish Realizing Attention Gone Paint Concentration Brushes Hares Buzzards

Author:Morris Graves

“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

“A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.”

Mind Littles Attention Quality Ought Add Concentration Conductor Incessant Presence Of Mind Chauffeurs

Author:Sergei Rachmaninoff

“To perfect your nature means to let go of this world and place your attention fully in the plane of enlightenment.”

World Mean Perfect Attention This World Letting Go Enlightenment Planes Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory, but rather the internal power and intelligence that you have amassed in other lifetimes.”

Mean Doe Memories Attention Awareness Fields Enlightenment Paid Lifetime Internals Concentration Cycles

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.”

Humans Littles Past Goal Human Beings Ability Attention Future Mindfulness Concentration Orientation

Author:Ian Gawler

“Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!”

Way Matter Given Secret Attention Subjects Plenty Concentration Length Passages You Choose

Author:Napoleon Hill

“If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with so much discipline, so much concentration and someone who likes to put a lot of passion into every point. Words fail to come out of me to describe his game appropriately. I've rarely seen anyone who approaches a ball with so much attention. With such passion and joy that it makes great fun to watch him. With him, you can associate everything that makes tennis so beautiful.”

Ifs Play Beautiful Joy Passion Games Fun Attention Watches Failing Discipline Approach Balls Incredibles Athlete Likes Tennis Concentration Admiration Associates Amazement Nadal

Author:Steffi Graf

“Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.”

Interest Memories Attention Subjects Depends Concentration Good Memories

Book:名人語錄

Source: 名人語錄

“It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.”

People Ifs Littles Book Facts Seems Turns Reading Difficult Effort Attention Television Command Concentration Editing Turn-on Interruptions Sharpening

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maintain her concentration while running away from a psycho... Maybe the ultimate insult is that she makes her co-star Elisha Cuthbert seem, by comparison, the sexiest and most interesting actress in modern cinema.”

“A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and the condition of inspiration which many people have said is near to madness... The problem of creative writing is essentially one of concentration... a focusing of the attention in a special way.”

People Way Writing Said Problem Inspiration Attention Creative Special Conditions Poet Demand Madness Concentration Vocation Creative Writing

Author:Stephen Spender

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