Best 193 quotes in «concentration quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

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

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

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

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

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

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

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.

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 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 more completely you concentrate, the stronger your mind becomes.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

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.

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

The secret to concentration is elimination.

Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming.

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.

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.

With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible.

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.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to who was capable of understanding the complexity (simplicity) of the problem or the approaches to a tentative solution. There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or "terror in a lonely place," the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind. As a mathematician he was free from subjection to reality, free to impose his ideas and designs on his own test environment. The only valid standard for his work, its critical point (zero or infinity), was the beauty it possessed, the deft strength of his mathematical reasoning. THe work's ultimate value was simply what it revealed about the nature of his intellect. What was at stake, in effect, was his own principle of intelligence or individual consciousness; his identity, in short. This was the infalling trap, the source of art's private involvement with obsession and despair, neither more nor less than the artist's self-containment, a mental state that led to storms of overwork and extended stretches of depression, that brought on indifference to life and at times the need to regurgitate it, to seek the level of expelled matter. Of course, the sense at the end of a serious effort, if the end is reached successfully, is one of lyrical exhilaration. There is air to breathe and a place to stand. The work gradually reveals its attachment to the charged particles of other minds, men now historical, the rediscovered dead; to the main structure of mathematical thought; perhaps even to reality itself, the so-called sum of things. It is possible to stand in time's pinewood dust and admire one's own veronicas and pavanes.

A great way to get rid of stress is, every once in a while, do something totally different and unexpected without any prior planning.