Concentration Quotes

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

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

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.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

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

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

Concentrate: you can't have it all.

I find that everything I do is demanding, like Jack Bristow is a complicated man and I do a lot of explaining in the show, it takes a lot of energy and concentration.

The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

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.

As your golf improves, your concentration will improve with it.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

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

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.

Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your concentration. Winning is a state of mind.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre.

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.

When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?

I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

To help your concentration, don't take too much time.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

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.

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

Concentration is the secret of srength.

Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers of concentration . They're relatively immune to the lures of wealth and fame.

When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration.