Zadie Smith Quotes

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we use this energy. Memories, thoughts and feelings are all shaped by how use it. And it is an energy under control, to do with as we please; hence attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

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

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

We are defined by how we place our attention.

You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.

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

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

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

We know even from ordinary life that we have to achieve a sufficient degree of attentiveness if we want to concentrate on an inner picture or an object of some kind; we must also have it in our power, though, to turn our soul away from something we have been concentrating on.

I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.

I've learned that the more I streamline what my actual tasks are and where I'd like to direct my energy, as opposed to where I let my energy go in an unaware state of mind, the more energy I have to place where my intentions are. Boundaries are good! Use them and know where they are.

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

We become what we pay attention to.

Focus is more valuable than IQ.

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 development of the faculty of attention forms the real object and almost the sole interest of studies.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

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

The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

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.