Quotes About Concentration

Ningún hombre carga su mente con asuntos pequeños, salvo que tenga algún buen motivo para hacerlo.

Pray interrupt me if there is any inference which is not perfectly clear to you. It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated. -Sherlock Holmes- -The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-

While I kept playing chess with him, his mind was elsewhere. I took his queen and he took my Rose.

When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.

It is not enough to have perceived such a notion, given it one's attention, understood it; it must be given a permanent place in the mind, so that it may be present even when one's attention is directed toward something else.

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

The act of meditation is being spacious.

Becky . . ." Luke looks at me carefully. "Have you ever been on a horse in your life?" "Yes! Of course I have!" Once. When I was ten. And I fell off. But I probably wasn't concentrating or something. "Just be careful, won't you?" he says. "I'm not quite ready to become a widower.

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself.

Teachers find many children emotionally distracted, so upset and preoccupied by the explosive drama of their own family lives that they are unable to concentrate on such mundane matters as multiplication tables.

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

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.

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.

The brain cannot multitask

he once played 45 games of chess simultaneously. He won 39 of these games, drew four, and lost two. While that is amazing in its own right, the truly phenomenal part is that he played all 45 games in all 11 hours blindfolded. You did not read that wrong. Najdorf never physically saw any of the chessboards or pieces; he played each game in his mind.

Don't stop and drift in the middle of the traffic lane, even if the fish are biting. The fish you catch might weigh many tons and have a propeller on the end and a bulbous bow on the other.

You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.

These are the thinking zone, programming zone, and performance zone.

He seldom thought of the past or the future, or of the disappointments and joys of either; he concentrated all his energies of which he was capable upon the moment of his work and hoped that he was at last defined by what he did.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.