Best 193 quotes in «concentration quotes» category

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

If one were blind, one can simply focus on a feeling.

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

I find overtime exciting. You don't have time to think about anything.

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.

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.

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

In pranayama you don't worry about taking breaths, you focus on exhalation. If you exhale properly you will inhale. The more deeply you exhale the more deeply you will inhale.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

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

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The secret to concentration is elimination.