Best 193 quotes in «concentration quotes» category

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

Look that nothing live in thy working mind, but a naked intent stretching into God.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue his profit goals.

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

The more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The secret of concentration is elimination.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

The secret to concentration is elimination.

Those who deny human-caused climate change offer no compelling evidence to better explain the undeniable rise in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and global temperature.

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

What does reflect reality very well is complexity theory, which comes from physics. I'm the one pioneering the idea of bringing it to capital markets. When you look at capital markets through the lens of complexity theory, you ask "what's the scale of the system?" Scale is a fancy word for size. What measures are you using? If you look at total debt, the concentration of assets in the five largest banks, what percentage of the total assets of the five largest banks are interconnected? What you see is a very densely connected, fragile system that could collapse at any moment.

The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.

Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.