Chin-Ning Chu Quotes

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

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

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

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

The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.

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

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

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

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 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.

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.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Focused mind power is one of the strongest forces on earth.

Concentration's like a shower. You don't turn it on until you want to bathe... You don't walk out of the shower and leave it running. You turn it off, you turn it on... It has to be fresh and ready when you need it.

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.

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

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 problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

I'm not good at concentrating.

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.