Quotes About Concentration

brain moment to moment, task to task—[and] that comes with a cost.

Flow can only come when you are monotasking—when you choose to set aside everything else and do one thing.

Sheriff Joe has built a jail that he refers to publicly as his "concentration camp," and presidential candidates flock here during election campaigns, emerging full of praise. Anslinger said addicts were "lepers" who needed to be "quarantined," and so Arpaio has built a leper colony for them in the desert.

I felt in that moment that we all have a choice now between two profound forces—fragmentation, or flow. Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. Flow expands us. I asked myself: Do you want to be one of Skinner's pigeons, atrophying your attention on dancing for crude rewards, or Mihaly's painters, able to concentrate because you have found something that really matters?

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Your life follows your attention. Wherever you look, you end up going.

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.

To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

Do one thing at a time and do that one thing as if your life depended upon it.

The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

The more you limit your choices, thereby limiting thought, the more you can simplify your life and focus your energy elsewhere.

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

I have so many things going on in my life that my mind is always in other places.

What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.

There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.

It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object, and, in some degree, banish for that time all other objects from his thoughts.

The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.