Focus And Attention Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Yes, the first draft is the key. That's why I put so much energy, focus, and attention on the first draft, because I respect that first go at the story. If I don't have the key in that first draft, I invariably won't get it in subsequent drafts, though I can craft around it.

Caridad Svich

#3. When we are all mind, things can get rigid. When we are all heart, things can get chaotic. Both lead to stress. But when they work together, the heart leading through empathy, the mind guiding us with focus and attention, we become a harmonious human being.

Arianna Huffington

#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. Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Tommy Franks

#6. 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

#7. I'm interested in directing attention and focus, explored through playing cello.

Joshua Roman

#8. 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

#9. It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

James L. Farmer Jr.

#10. Focus on one thing and do not scatter your attention

Sunday Adelaja

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Find the connection between you and the universe; focus on it with deep attention.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

Andrew Weil

#15. 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.

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

Denis Waitley

#22. 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

#23. Forget about trying to "fix" your spouse's flaws. Instead, focus your attention on aspects and characteristics that you enjoy most.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

Edward Howard Griggs

#38. 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

#39. It causes us to focus our attention on ourselves and draws us away from God

Sunday Adelaja

#40. The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.

Steve Backley

#41. Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#42. Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is important right now, at this moment.

Amit Ray

#43. If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover.

Winifred Gallagher

#44. I don't like being the focus of attention. It makes me very uncomfortable. And it's part of the reason I never look at videos of myself, or I very rarely listen to my music or even read things that I might've said.

Cecile McLorin Salvant

#45. As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

Colin Baker

#46. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

Israelmore Ayivor

#47. Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.

Robert Genn

#48. In the moment in which we now find ourselves, we have the ability to focus in on and do the things that serve us for the better - or we can give our attention to those things that reignite whatever thoughts that cause us to remain stuck in the moment or the past.

Josh Hinds

#49. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

#50. Loss of focus is what most worries Charlie and me when we contemplate investing in businesses that in general look outstanding. All too often, we've seen value stagnate in the presence of hubris or of boredom that caused the attention of managers to wander.

Warren Buffett

#51. Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about.

Caroline Myss

#52. I've been trying to give as much attention and focus to my life as well as my career. It's hard because the career is money, but putting that before day-to-day needs isn't something that can last indefinitely. I'm excited to begin the next chapter of my life with an amazing woman.

Eric Lange

#53. Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

Deepak Chopra

#54. People getting their mercury fillings removed report immediate and dramatic changes in focus, attention, memory, concentration.

David Goodman

#55. You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

Julian Schnabel

#56. I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.

Sam Keen

#57. The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

Lord Chesterfield

#58. This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.

Lee Gutkind

#59. One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let the universe run as it will. This will save us both a lot of energy and a lot of worry. Another

Massimo Pigliucci

#60. Our cells stimulate our pain receptors in order to get our brain to focus and pay attention. Once my brain acknowledges the existence of the pain, then it has served its purpose and either lightens up in intensity, or goes away.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#61. I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

Maud Adams

#62. Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.

Nhat Hanh

#63. Before Socrates, philosophers were primarily interested in explaining the world around them and the phenomena of that world - in doing what we would now call science. Although Socrates studied science as a young man, he abandoned it to focus his attention on the human condition.

William B. Irvine

#64. Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.

Jeffrey Kluger

#65. The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

Harrison Ford

#66. As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited ... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#67. I pressed my lips together, trying to find a safe place to focus my attention. He filled the entire shower stall, his skin clean and wet, every part of him chiseled. His gym shorts clung to a package I had no business noticing.

Lisa Kessler

#68. Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.

Eknath Easwaran

#69. Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

Susan Piver

#70. The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Saint Ignatius

#71. Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#72. Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

Gregg Easterbrook

#73. The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master!

Israelmore Ayivor

#74. 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

#75. Because fundraising is so distracting, a startup should either be in fundraising mode or not. And when you do decide to raise money, you should focus your whole attention on it so you can get it done quickly and get back to work.

Anonymous

#76. He could focus my attention on how perfectly sublime life can be at times. Such moments are ephemeral, and without his guidance I might have missed many of them, working so hard to get somewhere that I would fail to recognize when I had arrived.

Kevin Hearne

#77. I really do believe that the bottom line that creates transformation in the individual is the ability to focus your attention in an ever greater and more subtle way, and that follows the whole path of the limbs.

Beryl Bender Birch

#78. Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Wayne Dyer

#79. I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someone who wants people to read my books, I can't complain about that attention, but it does puzzle me that this is something reviewers focus on.

Karin Slaughter

#80. Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

Janelle Monae

#81. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#82. When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.

Katrina Kenison

#83. When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

Michael LeBoeuf

#84. Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Charles Stanley

#85. We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.

James Florio

#86. Therefore, when you know what you want, you must deliberately focus your attention on the feeling of your wish fulfilled until that feeling fills the mind and crowds all other ideas out of consciousness.

Neville Goddard

#87. I think, because it's one of my favorite moments in [Charles Manson's Hollywood]. That series got a lot of attention and people talk about it a lot, but they tend to focus on the episodes that have more to do with the murder, Charles Manson doing something particularly weird, or Sharon Tate.

Karina Longworth

#88. Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

Frederick Lenz

#89. If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

Ian Somerhalder

#90. Fasting is meant to take you, temporarily, out of the realm of the physical and focus your attention heavenward; as one Jewish guide to fasting puts it, 'at the heart of this practice is a desire to shift our attention away from our immediate needs and to focus on more spiritual concerns.

Lauren F. Winner

#91. I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, when conservatives, especially conservative men, make these particular issues their ideological focus; there is something suspect to me about individuals who devote enormous amounts of time and attention dos objects they profess to find repugnant

Curtis Sittenfeld

#92. To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.

Henna Inam

#93. Your objective of being in love with each other will require both you and your spouse to focus your attention on the other's most important needs.

Willard F. Harley

#94. Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.

Rachel Maddow

#95. Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#96. Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out of your mind, pay no attention. You just stay right on that spot!

Frederick Lenz

#97. Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

Napoleon Hill

#98. Is there a different between Attention Deficit Disorder and daydreaming? He mused. Ah, there I go again. Focus,

Stephen R. King

#99. That was a thing of wolves; they could know the past and the future, yet keep their attention on the hunt. Could he do the same? Allow himself to be consumed when needed, yet keep balance in other parts of his life?

Robert Jordan

#100. It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi