Jordan Pickford Quotes

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

Attention is the material I work with.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I don't know how you work on concentration. You are either born with it or you're not. And I was definitely not born with it.

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

That's one thing you learn as a quarterback: focus. The better you are at focusing and the more you can continue to stay focused for a four-hour stage and really be zeroed in on what is happening, the better you play, the longer you play.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.