Concentration Quotes

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

Focus on one point and hold your attention there. The mind will waiver, you'll think a million thoughts, but each time you do, bring your mind back to the point of concentration, seeing it visually.

A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind.

The deeper inner teachings are presented to very few because few would understand them. The exoteric teachings are presented to many.

You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You gain power by being happy.

People can insert thoughts into your mind. This is more dangerous for psychic people. Use concentration exercises and read to combat this; boredom is an easy way to be drained.

Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery.

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

Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people have a meditation table on which they put an object of concentration on.

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.

Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.

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

I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is concentration you really got to concentrate.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies.

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

Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

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

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

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million.

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

I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots.

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation

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

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

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

The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights.

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

A corporation is a state created institution, state supported institution, its concentration of private power, there is no reason why it should have the rights of persons.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.