Attentional Control Quotes

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

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

Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

There's a lot of research that indicates the brain rewards us for multi-tasking by giving us a shot of neurochemicals whenever we start a new task. Our brain rewards us even as our performance in every task degrades. We don't even notice that our performance is bad. We don't care. We feel like masters of the universe because our brain is chemically rewarding us for multi-tasking.

Whatever you focus on you're going to feel.

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

People dont pay attention until they have to