Tryon Edwards Quotes

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.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting.

As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate.

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

Clarity keeps you from boredom.

The students are kept so busy and are so fascinated by what they are doing that they have neither the time nor design for antics.

When you're playing, it's important to focus 100 per cent on what you're doing.

My attention span has never been on point - in school as well - unless I'm very, very, very into something.

It's so hard for me to focus on things for a long time that I'm not incredibly passionate about.

For some reason, I can really tune in in the majors, and I have no idea why. They really get my attention.

You can have the greatest strategy in the world but what is the point if no one cares?

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

I have a terrible attention span, so if something can keep my attention, I know that that's at least a great start.

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

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Attention is the material I work with.