Joyce Meyer Quotes

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

If you see distraction externally, you end up creating an internally distracted state.

I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

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.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Look at this generation, with all of its electronic devices and multitasking. I will confidently predict less success than Warren, who just focused on reading.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Multitasking divides your attention and leads to confusion and weakened focus.

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

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.

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

The mind is running on all sides to think about many things, - what we call thoughts coming from outside. We must withdraw the mind from these distractions and make it abide in the self. Thus guarding the peace within we shall have to do the work without.

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about.