Attentional Resources Quotes

Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.

We become what we pay attention to.

There is always more information than attention

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

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.

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

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

People dont pay attention until they have to

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.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

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

We are defined by how we place our attention.

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

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

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.

Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Throughout my career, my mind rarely wandered, and I was never sidetracked by distractions, no matter what I was going through off the court.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

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.