117 Focused Attention Quotes

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Famous Focused Attention Quotes

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. — James Arthur Ray

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. — Eknath Easwaran

Focus is essential for a productive life. — Lex Fridman

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. — Willie Sutton

Focus like a laser, not a flashlight — Michael Jordan

Concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Buddha

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. — Robert J. Shiller

Energy flows where attention goes. - Michael Beckwith

Energy flows where attention goes. — Michael Beckwith

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. - Keanu Reeves

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. — Keanu Reeves

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show. — T. Harv Eker

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere — Bruce Lee

Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time. — Dave Ramsey

A focused fool can accomplish more than a distracted genius. — Alex Hormozi

Channel your energy. Focus. — Carl Lewis

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful — Robert Kiyosaki

Short Focused Attention Quotes

  • Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil
  • Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do. — John Carmack
  • The true art of memory is the art of attention. — Samuel Johnson
  • In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us. — Virginia Woolf
  • Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Compassion begins with attention. — Daniel Goleman
  • The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking. — Nancy Kline
  • Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus. — Deepak Chopra
  • Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. — Ray Knight

Focused Attention Image Quotes

Focused attention quote It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

Any Attention Is Good Attention Quotes

My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves. — Martin Lewis Perl

The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport. — Chris Algieri

In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature. — Noam Chomsky

Focused attention quote Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true. — Matthew Healy

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention. — Robert Greene

I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention; because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards. — Samuel Johnson

Focused attention quote Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.
Stop focusing on how stressed you are and remember how blessed you are.

I'm telling you, if you want to have good advice, never pay any attention to the camera guys because they will tell you over and over something is wrong and let's reshoot it, let's do this and let's do that. Hey, just do it. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce. — J. Michael Straczynski

What Is Focused Attention Quotes

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

Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results. — Andrew Wommack

If there's too much plot happening in animation and people are too focused on what's around the corner, they start feeling like their brain is being ripped in half. You don't know what to pay attention to. — Duncan Trussell

Focused attention quote You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Mirroring is simply repeating what someone just said. It creates more reception from the other side, it focuses attention, and it gives them an opportunity to dial in more with you and you to dial in more with them. — Chris Voss

Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being. — Kenneth Cloke

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on. — Rhonda Byrne

Focused attention quote Focus on your goals, not your fear.
Focus on your goals, not your fear.

Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it. — Iyanla Vanzant

We have an opportunity to focus global attention on what should be obvious: every mother, and every child, counts. They count because we value every human life. The evidence is clear that healthy mothers and children are the bedrock of healthy and prosperous communities and nations. — Lee Jong-wook

Dominant energy patterns that are contributing to the stress in a human being, are able to be picked up, if a person is open enough. And for me, as a medical intuitive, that's where I focus my attention. That's what the skill is all about. — Caroline Myss

My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention. — Radka Donnell

Focus Today Quotes

I know what we’re going to do by the time we’re dead. And it isn’t worth trading that for anything today that could take away from that. — Alex Hormozi

Focus on problems that cannot be solved today at all. — Jensen Huang

My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future. — Robert. L. Ehrlich

Focused attention quote There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

I stumbled across the 3.7 billion people around the world who are unconnected and this became a heavy focus, hence World Mobile today. — Micky Watkins

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. — Rod Blagojevich

Business today is more personal than ever. It's about pouring your soul into whatever you create. It's about providing more value than anyone else in the market and focusing on creating strong, honest, and deep connections with your customers. — Marie Forleo

Focused attention quote What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again.
What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again.

One of the top SEO experts today isn’t only focused on SEO. — Brian Dean

In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in. — Anna Wintour

A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join. — Meg Whitman

Don’t obsess over your current standing in life. Even if you’re a total failure today, so what? What does that have to do with what you're capable of becoming? Insist on delivering value to yourself. Only focus on that which drives you to improve. — Tom Bilyeu

Focus On What You Have Quotes

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have — Paul Tudor Jones

One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have? — Steven Furtick

It's hard to focus on your own growth when you obsess over what other people are doing on IG. Sometimes you have to cut the noise, put your head down, and remember that you're making progress at your own pace. — Jaspreet Singh

Focused attention quote You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Focus on your own strengths and what you have to offer. Don’t get lost in trying to become like someone else or pretending to be someone else. — Jay Shetty

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." — Thomas A. Edison

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don’t give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life’s problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works. — Yanni

Focused attention quote If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss. — Anthony De Mello

What works for someone else may not work for you. We all have different goals, incomes, and work ethics. Focus on yourself and create an investing system that works for you. — Jaspreet Singh

Focus on yourself -- do what you want, when you want, without having to consider anyone else's agenda. — Lauren Weisberger

Take responsibility for what you have control over and focus on that. — Patrick Bet-David

Focus And Concentration Quotes

Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. — Tony Robbins

Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things and harder to be distracted by the wrong things. — Tim Grover

Focused attention quote Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving for
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward finding the answer.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear. — Tony Robbins

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. — Anil Ambani

As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it. — Wim Hof

Focused attention quote Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving for
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. — Andrew Carnegie

We must stop concentrating on our differences and focus on what we have in common. Then we can realize our full potential and achieve the greatest good in the world. — Bonnie L. Oscarson

All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Buddha

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. — Paulo Coelho

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More Focused Attention Quotes

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson

It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished. — Nick Saban

We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth! — John F. MacArthur

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment. — Phil Jackson

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Multi-tasking is like balancing spinning plates. Sure, it sounds exciting but you’ll never unlock the compounding effects of narrowly focused attention. — Alex Hormozi

Short-term thinkers are a dime a dozen. Long-term thinkers are extremely rare. History books favor the long-term thinkers. Don't let short-term attention distract you from your long-term vision becoming a reality. Chase the big. — Patrick Bet-David

Generally, most people will make the mistake of paying too much attention to the competition. — Naval Ravikant

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

Consider how different your experience of the world might be if you engaged in every activity with the attention you might give to landing a plane. — Rick Rubin

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

This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King. — Mark Zimmermann

Fear is a great signal. It's like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain. — Wim Hof

I attract to my life whatever I give my attention, energy and focus to, whether positive or negative. — Michael Losier

Paying attention at every moment, forms a new relationship to time. In some magical way, by slowing down, you become more efficient, productive, and energetic, focusing without distraction directly on the task in front of you. Not only do you become immersed in the moment, you become that moment. — Michael Ray

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product. — Adam Grant

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. — Buddha

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. — Greg Anderson

I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read. — Tom Cruise

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

We've been cooperative with the NFL investigation. We'll continue to do so and we will turn all our attention and focus on to the Seattle Seahawks, a very well coached, talented, tough, competitive football team. — Bill Belichick

The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness. — Neale Donald Walsch

Simply put, the Law of Attraction states that you will attract into your life whatever you focus on. Whatever you give your energy and attention to will come back to you. So, if you stay focused on the good and positive things in your life, you will automatically attract more good and positive things into your life. — Jack Canfield

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. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile. — Danny Hillis

Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a far more serious issue. Excessive pumping for irrigation to satisfy food needs today almost guarantees a decline in food production tomorrow. — Lester R. Brown

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich. — Henry Ford

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

Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one. — Willy Ronis

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus. — John C. Maxwell

Forget the pain. Learn to endure. Focus your attention elsewhere. — Marlo Morgan

Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety. — Tommy Franks

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