Bridget Riley Quotes

Attention is the material I work with.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

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.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

It is all about concentration, and the more games you play, the more you concentrate.

I think talent has a huge amount to do with concentration, concentration rather than the athletic ability of your neurons. If you can concentrate on an esoteric piece of math, how can you think about the rest of your life? That's why people can leave their car keys in the gutter; they're in the midst of obsession and concentration.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

The more you focus, the more that focus becomes a habit.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

Out of silence is born concentration, and from that comes learning.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will never miss. If you are learning your lessons, think only of the lesson. In India boys and girls are taught to do this.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.