Jiddu Krishnamurti 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.

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

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

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

We become what we pay attention to.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

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.

The eyes see not what is before them when the mind is intent on other matters.

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery.

We are defined by how we place our attention.

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 pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly.

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.

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education.

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be?

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

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

The breath of the mind is attention.

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.'