Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

I think that what the machines can do, of course, is wonderful, but it's not the same as what the brain can do.

There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.

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

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'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

[Warren] Harding is incapable of thought, because he has nothing to think with.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

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

Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

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