Quotes About Attention

As coisas que mais importam nunca devem ficar à mercê de coisas que importam menos." Johann Wolfgang von

Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

So how do you put your willpower to work? You think about it. Pay attention to it. Respect it. You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest. In other words, you give it the time of day it deserves.

Your environment is simply who you see and what you experience every day. The people are familiar, the places comfortable. You trust these elements of your environment and quite possibly even take them for granted. But be aware. Anyone and anything at any time can become a thief, diverting your attention away from your most important work and stealing your productivity right from under your nose. For

To quote Nass, "Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

Multitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time." —Steve Uzzell

When you try to do two things at once, you either can't or won't do either well.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket." Look round you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail. It is easy to watch and carry the one basket. It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.

even computers can process only one piece of code at a time. When they "multitask," they switch back and forth, alternating their attention until both tasks are done.

Extraordinary results require focused attention and time.

The concerns which fail are those which have scattered their capital, which means that they have scattered their brains also. They have investments in this, or that, or the other, here, there and everywhere.

The problem with living in the middle is that it prevents you from making extraordinary time commitments to anything. In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.

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

People who can pick up on trends, spot patterns, wonder about irregularities, and notice coincidences are an important resource.

The senses and intuition, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention, curiosity, imitation, reason, of which man posts, may be found in an incipient or even sometimes in a well developed condition, in the lower animals." -Darwin

God has much to say to us, but we are often too busy to listen. Our minds have a tendency to get too occupied during the day, or sometimes we are too busy praying to God with our own agendas and have lost our listening ears. Dreams are one way God can "break in" and get something across to us that we might not be open to hearing during the day.

When you sexually reconnect, you feel the effects of this neurochemical cement. Learning to disregard this cement (which you must eventually do to break things off) will undercut the positive effects it has in marriage. You must train yourself to ignore what God created you to pay attention to.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Don't look where you don't want to go.

have always gone out of my way to try and remember people's names and then use them where I can. I find the best way to do this is to make a rhyme about their name when you meet them, or even better, associate their name with another person you know well with the same name.

Hear how the use of the wrong word wakes you from your reading spell.

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.