Tom Cruise Quotes

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

If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

I'm always mentally photographing everything as practice.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

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

First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw a mental image of where you want it to go and then eliminate everything else from your mind, except how you are going to get the ball into that preferred spot.

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

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

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

Where your attention goes, you go.

Our life experiences area result of where our attention takes us.

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

If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration.

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.

When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark. It should be the same for you who are about to shoot the head of the wicked devil. Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. It's like a color movie. First I 'see' where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes and I 'see' the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is this sort of fadeout, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images to reality.

We are defined by how we place our attention.