Attention Quote by Gautama Buddha

Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious…

— Henepola Gunaratana

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

— Robert McNamara

Action and contemplation are...

— Bernard of Clairvaux

“True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from…

— Evelyn Underhill

When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not…

— Asvaghosa

Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness.

— Hakuin Ekaku

I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart…

— Henry Walter Bates

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

— Ray Knight

“Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.”

— Daniel Kahneman

The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it…

— Erich Fromm

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

— Anonymous

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

— Pete Rose