Focused Attention Quotes:

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

- Alexander Graham Bell

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Wrestling, Concentrating, Work Done

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

- Epictetus

source: Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.4, Harper Collins

topic: Life, Envy, Attention, Focused Attention

‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Laser Focus, Monday Motivation

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

- Daniel Goleman

source: Daniel Goleman (2013). “Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence”, p.15, A&C Black

topic: Focus, Brain, Connections, Focused Attention

Togetherness has to do with focused attention. It is giving someone your undivided attention. As humans, we have a fundamental desire to connect with others. We may be in the presence of people all day long, but we do not always feel connected.

- Gary Chapman

source: Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.65, Moody Publishers

topic: Long, People, Giving, Focused Attention, Undivided Attention

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.

- Rick Warren

topic: Love, Marriage, Rose, Gift Of Love, Focused Attention

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Men, Calm Mind, Imagination, Focused Attention

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Leadership, Spiritual, Religious, Spiritual Insight, Spiritual Values

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

- Aesop

source: "Aesop's Fables".

topic: Reality, Focus And Concentration, Shadow, Focused Attention

When you are focused upon something that you desire, then through the Law of Attraction, more and more thoughts about what you desire will be drawn, and you will feel greater positive emotion. You can speed the creation of something simply by giving it more attention—the Law of Attraction takes care of the rest and brings to you the essence of the subject of your thought.

- Esther Hicks

source: Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Law Of Attraction, Essence, Giving, Positive Emotions, Focused Attention

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Attention, Pay, Focused Attention

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

- Danny Hillis

source: "The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

topic: Communication, People, Littles, Focused Attention

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

- Philippa Perry

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Meditation, Brain, Connections, Focused Attention

I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.

- Stephen Shore

topic: Photography, Mean, Everyday, Focused Attention

Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

- Joshua Rogers

topic: Meaningful, Book, Reading, Long Book, Focused Attention

We focused attention on what some believe are the flaws in the process leading to Senate consideration of the bill and the flaws of the bill itself.

- Harry Reid

topic: Believe, Attention, Bills, Focused Attention

I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.

- Moby

topic: Song, Thinking, Play, Musicianship, Focused Attention