Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

We are defined by how we place our attention.

We become what we pay attention to.

Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

The development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

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

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

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Where your attention goes, you go.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

If you are wired to your memory, repetitions will happen and redundancy will come; but if you are paying attention, that changes your ability to look at things.

You are responsible for what you give your attention to.

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