Attention Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing. It seems to me that most…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Anonymous

Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces…

— Mooji

Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or…

— Eckhart Tolle

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

— William James

Attention equals importance equals value equals ego. Or, more realistically, Attention equals success.

— Cris Mazza

“To be aware of inattention is to be attentive. Complete attention is love. It alone can see, and the seeing is the doing.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work is dissipated. We create ourselves by how…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

— David Walliams

Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it,…

— Tom Vanderbilt

Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi