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

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Procrastination

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  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

  Life, Jealousy, Envy

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

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

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 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

  Focus, Brain, Connections

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

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• 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

  Long, People, Giving

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

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

  Rick Warren

  Love, Marriage, Rose

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• 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

  Men, Calm Mind, Imagination

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• 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

  Leadership, Spiritual, Religious

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Forbes, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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

  Aesop

  Reality, Focus And Concentration, Shadow

  "Aesop's Fables".

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• 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

  Law Of Attraction, Essence, Giving

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

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

  Joss Whedon

  Focus, Attention, Pay

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• 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

  Motivation, Communication, Inspiration

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

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

  Philippa Perry

  Meditation, Brain, Connections

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

  Photography, Mean, Everyday

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• 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

  Meaningful, Book, Reading

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• 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

  Believe, Attention, Bills

  "Asbestos Bill Moves Forward After Reid Lifts Objection". www.foxnews.com. February 07, 2006.

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• 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

  Song, Thinking, Play

  "With Destroyed, Moby Makes Sense of Shattered Musical Landscape". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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