Garfield Sobers Quotes

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

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

You are responsible for what you give your attention to.

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.

I thought a lot and I controlled my thoughts in my work - and I controlled my work through my thoughts.

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

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.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

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.

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

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

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

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

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

Brain studies of mental workouts in which you sustain a single, chosen focus show that the more you detach from what's distracting you and refocus on what you should be paying attention to, the stronger this brain circuitry becomes.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

The thing with focus is that it's not this thing you aspire to, like, 'Oh, on Monday I'm going to be focused.' It's every single minute: 'Why are we talking about this when we're supposed to be talking about this?'

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

We become what we pay attention to.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

My mind is constantly in five different places, but golf is great because it forces you to focus completely and purely on what you're doing.

To be more aware, we need only listen for and let go of the thoughts which steal our attention.