Esther Hicks Quotes

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.

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

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 you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

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.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

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

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

I like to empty my mind and focus on developing my abilities in training.

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with that. Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. My goal is to play one full game in the now, but I haven't even gotten past the first inning yet. I start thinking about where my mom is or if my dogs have been fed. The average human has 2,000 thoughts a day. The really accomplished have 1,500 because you can focus longer. I need to learn how to focus longer.

Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.

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

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

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

What you focus on grows.

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

The breath of the mind is attention.

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.