Quotes About Concentration

Structure is the vessel needed to contain the mercury of the ADD mind, to keep it from being here and there and everywhere all at once. Structure allows the ADD mind to be put to best use, rather than dissipating itself like so many tiny beads of mercury on the floor.

As is known by clinicians who work with the ADD population, and by parents of ADD children, and by adults who have ADD, one of the most frustrating aspects of ADD is the inability to profit from one's experience, the inability to focus on consequences, the inability to navigate through tasks or social situations or the world at large by using what has been learned previously.

Worry becomes what attention turns into when it isn't focused on some task.

Trapped in the past or future in the DMN, you're likely to abandon projects you once started with enthusiasm, make careless mistakes, or, worse, fall into a state of misery and despair, for no good reason whatsoever. All

In other words: Spend more time in the TPN focusing on a single task. We know what you might be thinking: The whole point is that I can't focus on a single task! But you can—you are already a master of distraction, so now distract yourself. Productivity isn't the point here. Moving the toggle switch is.

Easy distractibility, trouble focusing attention, tendency to tune out or drift away in the middle of a page or a conversation, often coupled with an ability to hyperfocus at times.

Eldredge has just said gives a pretty good short description of ADD: You don't mean to do the things you do do, and you don't do the things you mean to do.

I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.

Love is the cosmos, how deeper you see how deeper you go in. If you do not concentrate to; you lose it. If you do, you have it forever.

Whether you're driving a car or playing basketball, churning out a report or researching torts, the ability to get in the groove so that you're working with time instead of against it is key to peak productivity.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

Full concentration brings relaxation and joy. It is the struggle of divided attention that brings a great deal of the misery that we associate with jobs we don't like.

The Buddha said, "When you are walking, walk. When you are sitting, sit. Don't wobble.

concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.

Undivided singleness of mind" is what the Gita means by yoga. It is the complete opposite of the incessant civil warfare among intellect, senses, emotions, and instincts which is our usual state of mind. Yoga is the complete reintegration of all these fragments on every level of the personality. It is the process of becoming whole.

The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn't wander.

Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.

Querer bien va de la mano del querer mal, y yo no consigo, no consigo concentrarme alrededor de ninguna buena voluntad

In a corner, a girl was staring at a stack of flash cards with incredible ferocity, as if she were going to eat them.

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.

Music can order our muscular system. I believe that it is also able to order our mental contents.

But observers have generally noted that such people are greatly absorbed with their own thoughts even when in company. Winnicott's paradoxical description of 'being alone in the presence of others may be relevant not only to the infant with its mother, but also to those who are capable of intense concentration and preoccupation with their own inner processes even when surrounded by other people.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

Nunca soy más yo mismo que cuando guardo silencio y escucho, cuando dejo a un lado mi fatigosa identidad y mi propia memoria para concentrarme del todo en el acto de escuchar, de ser plenamente habitado por las experiencias y los recuerdos de otros.