Concentration Quotes
By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp.
Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.
Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
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.
Kyra Sedgwick told me, 'Keep your heart where your feet are' and that's incredibly difficult to do. It takes a lot of concentration. You've got to be conscientious of each other.
The Law of Concentration states that whatever you dwell upon, grows. The more you think about something, the more it becomes part of your reality.
I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.
I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.
If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.
The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.
Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.
Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world that might cease to exist.
To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.
While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.
Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator, I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.
Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from out - and on the shapes that are created by it.
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.
The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.
What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire
there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration.
To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.
Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.
Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect.
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.
I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.