Top 100 Attention Focus Quotes
#1. Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
Kelly McGonigal
#3. What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
#4. My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.
Radka Donnell
#5. Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar
#6. Now suppose that at the end of the page you get another instruction: count all the commas in the next page. This will be harder, because you will have to overcome the newly acquired tendency to focus attention on the letter f.
Daniel Kahneman
#7. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.
Tommy Franks
#8. Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#9. The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.
Roshan Sharma
#10. If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.
Chris Isaak
#11. I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.
Joshua Roman
#12. Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.
Louise Mensch
#13. It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.
James L. Farmer Jr.
#14. I don't like this idea
It is too much focus
on something I am trying to forget
I am afraid
that this attention to detail
will only fuel my anxiety
Samantha Schutz
#15. I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.
Kim Gordon
#16. I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.
Ayelet Waldman
#17. Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Greg Anderson
#18. The mark of a person who is in control of consciousness is the ability to focus attention at will, to be oblivious to distractions, to concentrate for as long as it takes to achieve a goal, and not longer. And the person who can do this usually enjoys the normal course of everyday life.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#19. The Law of Attraction requires that we focus our attention on what we do want, rather than what we don't want, Focus on loving you.
Louise Hay
#20. All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.
Lucas Till
#21. Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion, joy and peace, they will expand - not only in our own lives, but also into the world beyond.
Deepak Chopra
#22. I find that my cultural conditioning leads me to focus attention on places where I am unlikely to get what I want. I developed NVC as a way to train my attention-to shine the light of consciousness-on places that have the potential to yield what I am seeking.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#23. Life is not just about the good things or not just about the bad things. It is both. It all depends where you focus your attention.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#24. Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention
Sunday Adelaja
#25. There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.
Shannon L. Alder
#26. Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. I'm a very private person. I don't go out much. I'm home with kids. I go to work. I don't really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.
Angelina Jolie
#28. Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.
Winifred Gallagher
#29. I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.
B. Alan Wallace
#30. Focus on what's important. Give more attention to your dreams than your fears, to your now than your then, to your expansive truth than other's diminishing lies.
Unknown 21
#31. The quality of our lives is determined by the focus of our attention.
Cheri Huber
#32. Find the connection between you and the universe; focus on it with deep attention.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Karen Thompson Walker
#35. Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.
Andrew Weil
#36. I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.
Virat Kohli
#37. The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.
Frederick Lenz
#38. My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.
Donald Trump Jr.
#39. Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.
L.A. Paul
#40. Obviously the shift to gas and the need for large amounts of gas in the United States is going to be a major focus of attention on the part of producers.
Andrew Gould
#41. Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere.
Marlo Morgan
#42. Thought is creative. Be mindful of where your attention is, because the universe doesn't know the difference. It only knows where your focus is. Life will surely manifest where you put that attention.
Christina Applegate
#43. I kept my attention fixed on Quinn, blinked twice so he would come into focus,
Penny Reid
#44. it's helpful to focus your child's attention on the present moment by deciding together on one thing you may particularly look for.
Linda Lantieri
#45. All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.
Doris Lessing
#46. All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.
Michael Strahan
#47. Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.
Sharon Salzberg
#48. Peace in its real sense can never be achieved by military measures or technical fixes ... It is high time for us to focus our attention on the real problems which are threatening all of us - in fact, life on this planet.
Hans-Peter Durr
#49. Instead of tryig to stop thought when you meditate, focus your attention on love. Suddenly you'll find your thoughts are slacking. Light is everywhere and suddenly there is no thought.
Frederick Lenz
#50. Attention and focus are essential skills for writers in a noise-filled world.
Anne H. Janzer
#51. Give full attention to what you do. If you give a rapt attention to what you do, you can have what you could have done in 3 hours well completed within 2 hours or less. Concentration is the key word.
Israelmore Ayivor
#52. Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
Denis Waitley
#54. Focus your attention on the top of your neck. Take that energy and transmit it in two lines to your hands. Then from the hands, bounce that energy right back to the heart center and ground it.
Frederick Lenz
#55. Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - NOW is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.
Rhonda Byrne
#56. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#57. All this focus on my private life is the most unappealing aspect of being an actor. I don't like it, but it goes with the territory, and I have to put up with it. I certainly don't set out to attract attention.
Sean Bean
#58. When exercising, be sure to focus your attention on what you are doing.
Lee Haney
#59. Habits are one of the ways the brain learns complex behaviors. Neuroscientists believe habits give us the ability to focus our attention on other things by storing automatic responses in the basal ganglia, an area of the brain associated with involuntary actions.
Nir Eyal
#60. Many lonely people, Strike knew, found it pleasant to be the focus of somebody's undivided attention and sought to prolong the novel experience.
Robert Galbraith
#61. No matter how great the power is that the Holy Spirit releases through a prophet, we are to focus our hearts and attention first on loving, worshiping, and obeying Jesus.
Mike Bickle
#62. And I chose you. I had been wrong before. It was romantic, what he said, what he did. Even while he hurt me, I had his full focus, his complete attention. His care, like worship. His love, an obsession.
Skye Warren
#63. I attract to my life whatever I give my attention, energy and focus to, whether positive or negative.
Michael Losier
#64. You focus your attention on a single truth from the Bible and then continue to think about it throughout your day.
Rick Warren
#65. I think I'm a focus for international attention.
Sting
#66. Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
Winifred Gallagher
#67. As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.
Frederick Lenz
#68. The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.
Dax Shepard
#69. When that which I have chosen to focus upon in this moment evokes love or joy or appreciation, I am, in that moment, offering my greatest value to myself, to my current object of attention and to All-That-Is.
Esther Hicks
#70. Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
Bridget Riley
#71. To focus means to bring your attention to the center, to concentrate on one thing intently in order to gain clarity.
Cheryl Richardson
#72. A survey of Canadian media consumption by Microsoft concluded that the average attention span had fallen to eight seconds, down from 12 in the year 2000.
Timothy Egan
#73. I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.
Tom Cruise
#74. To pursue mental operations to any depth, a person has to learn to concentrate attention. Without focus, consciousness is in a state of chaos.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#75. What you focus on, you create. So focus your attention consciously, and do not allow your attention to stray to results that you aren't interested in manifesting. Because you can, and will, create more of what you are focusing on.
Mary Morrissey
#76. Quite often it's not about what is said, but what isn't. And even when it's spoken, read between the lines. Listening with the heart is just as important as hearing with the mind.
T.F. Hodge
#77. 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 ...
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#78. Get tuned in to the goals created from each dream and stay focused. You might miss the goals if you are not focused.
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#80. Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.
Joss Whedon
#81. We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ.
The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby
is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!
John F. MacArthur
#82. We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.
Mark Zuckerberg
#83. A warrior must focus his attention on the link between himself and his death ... He must let each of his acts be his last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will his acts have their rightful power.
Carlos Castaneda
#84. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.
Shannon L. Alder
#85. Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants ... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants.
Rhonda Byrne
#86. Microinteractions are an exercise in restraint, in doing as much as possible with as little as possible. Embrace the constraints and focus your attention on doing one thing well. Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.
Dan Saffer
#87. If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.
Israelmore Ayivor
#88. Keep off your mind from the reward until the work is done; else you may be directed out of focus by the reward's appeals if it catches your attention!
Israelmore Ayivor
#89. Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
Edward Howard Griggs
#90. Each of us lives in multi-dimensions. We can choose where to focus our attention, and wherever that focus goes, a new reality opens up. When I speak of other dimensions, I'm referring to domains of consciousness.
Deepak Chopra
#91. It's not an area where designers want to focus or pay attention - women who are larger than a size 12.
Tim Gunn
#92. Team members have to be focused on the collective good of the team. Too often, they focus their attention on their department, their budget, their career aspirations, their egos.
Patrick Lencioni
#93. Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.
Winifred Gallagher
#94. The same is true when you drink a cup of tea: if you're concentrated and you focus your attention on the cup of tea, then the cup of tea becomes a great joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#95. It was a form of compliment, she felt, since it made her the focus of his attention.
Margaret Atwood
#96. ..those soul-satisfying feelings quickly capture our attention, and we no longer wish to pay attention to physical clues. Instead, our focus is on the immense satisfaction the feelings are providing.
Errol R. Fish
#97. Do not pay attention to those who are trying to stop or hinder you
Sunday Adelaja
#98. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#100. For me, my criteria for making films is all about trying to do something different from the last time. So if I catch myself doing too much of one thing, I'm always trying to move away from that, because it's not going to be challenging enough to keep my attention and focus.
Queen Latifah
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