Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

I didn't dare let my mind wander off.

What an orchestra! They just sit there, but their minds are thousands of miles away with their bookies.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

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 mind is crazy thing. To be focused is the most difficult thing.

Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.

I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

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

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.

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.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

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

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

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.

If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.