Quotes About Focus

By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

Satan will always find you something to do when you ought to be occupied about that [regular, prayerful Bible study], if it is only arranging a window blind.

At times, it's better to think of exactly what is happening right in front of you every second, rather than going through things from the past in your mind.

Life is to short to worry about everything.

Soulful intent...A perspective that reminds us that our understanding is not the only way" from Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret

A cup of tea is all I need to keep working.

It's hard to walk a straight line when you have nothing to hold onto

In the last decade our attention span has dropped from 13 seconds to 8. To put that in comparison a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. Don't be a goldfish.

If you want people to be able to pay attention, don't start with details. Start with the key ideas and, in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. Meaning before details.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task and makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Emotions get our attention.

Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth.

The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

That's why a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task and makes up to 50 percent more errors.

TV also poisons attention spans and the ability to focus, a classic hallmark of executive function. For each additional hour of TV watched by a child under the age of 3, the likelihood of an attentional problem by age 7 increased by about 10 percent. So a preschooler who watches three hours of TV per day is 30 percent more likely to have attentional problems than a child who watches no TV.

What you pay attention to is often profoundly influenced by memory. In everyday life, you use your previous experiences to predict where you should pay attention.

Do one thing at a time

Try creating an interruption-free zone during the day—turn off your e-mail, phone, IM program, or BlackBerry—and see whether you get more done.

attention Brain Rule #6 We don't pay attention to boring things.

The messages that do grab your attention are connected to memory, interest, and awareness.

The brain cannot multitask

Brain Rule #6 We don't pay attention to boring things. • The brain's attentional "spotlight" can focus on only one thing at a time: no multitasking. • We are better at seeing patterns and abstracting the meaning of an event than we are at recording detail. • Emotional arousal helps the brain learn. • Audiences check out after 10 minutes, but you can keep grabbing them back by telling narratives or creating events rich in emotion.