Quotes about Concentration

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. Votes: 7

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. Votes: 5

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. Votes: 5

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. Votes: 5

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet. Votes: 5

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength. Votes: 5

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. Votes: 5

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do. Votes: 5

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors. Votes: 5

Concentration is the secret of srength. Votes: 4

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. Votes: 4

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life. Votes: 4

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. Votes: 4

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. Votes: 4

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet. Votes: 4

Concentration attracts luck factor. Votes: 3

Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness. Votes: 3

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment. Votes: 3

Concentration is at the root of mental mastery. Votes: 3

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything. Votes: 3

Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished? Votes: 3

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. Votes: 3

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man. Votes: 3

Concentration is not staring hard at something. It is not trying to concentrate. Votes: 3

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order. Votes: 3

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. Votes: 3

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him. Votes: 3

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. Votes: 3

Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education. Votes: 3

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it. Votes: 3

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration. Votes: 3

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you. Votes: 3

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind. Votes: 3

The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there. Votes: 3

Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill. Votes: 3

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. Votes: 3

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. Votes: 3

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work. Votes: 3

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing. Votes: 3

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy. Votes: 3

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. Votes: 3

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit. Votes: 3

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress. Votes: 3

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. Votes: 3

Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes. Votes: 3

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface. Votes: 3

I think audiences sometimes mistakenly assume a quality performance comes from some great emotional disturbance rather than really intense concentration. Concentration and flow is what it's all about. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines. Votes: 3

Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society. Votes: 3

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other. Votes: 3

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere. Votes: 3

Viktor Frankl said the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn't want to think about Votes: 3

When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration. Votes: 3

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything." Votes: 3

Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion to a condition of ease, clarity, and wisdom. No external action needs to happen. Votes: 3

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world. Votes: 3

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel. Votes: 3

Give full attention to what you do. If you give a rapt attention to what you do, you can have what you could have done in 3 hours well completed within 2 hours or less. Concentration is the key word. Votes: 3

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist. Votes: 3

Concentration's like a shower. You don't turn it on until you want to bathe... You don't walk out of the shower and leave it running. You turn it off, you turn it on... It has to be fresh and ready when you need it. Votes: 3

The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us to 1000 ppm, is a world not merely of endless regional resource wars around the globe. It is a world with dozens of Darfurs. It is a world of a hundred Katrinas, of countless environmental refugees Votes: 3

Music for me, it demands full concentration. Votes: 2

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. Votes: 2

Being fit helps me improve my concentration, my will power and even my determination. Votes: 2

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. Votes: 2

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and other targeted mass atrocity crimes because they may not look the same. Votes: 2

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. Votes: 2

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. Votes: 2

I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day. Votes: 2

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. Votes: 2

Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself. Votes: 2

The secret to concentration is elimination. Votes: 1

Chess demands total concentration Votes: 0

The only prudence in life is concentration. Votes: 0

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts. Votes: 0

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it. Votes: 0

There is no happiness. There is only concentration. Votes: 0

Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth. Votes: 0

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness. Votes: 0

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy. Votes: 0

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering. Votes: 0

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self criticism. Votes: 0

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on. Votes: 0

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching. Votes: 0

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration. Votes: 0

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on." Votes: 0

To help your concentration, don't take too much time. Votes: 0

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps... Votes: 0

I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp. Votes: 0

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts. Votes: 0

It's all about concentration and repetition. That's all it is. Votes: 0

As your golf improves, your concentration will improve with it. Votes: 0

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying. Votes: 0

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres. Votes: 0

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration. Votes: 0

With the Ethical Rules and a little concentration, anything is possible. Votes: 0

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration. Votes: 0

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. Votes: 0

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices. Votes: 0

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence. Votes: 0

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned. Votes: 0

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us. Votes: 0

It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us." Votes: 0

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion. Votes: 0

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it. Votes: 0

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup. Votes: 0

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. Votes: 0

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones. Votes: 0

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration. Votes: 0

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy. Votes: 0

Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone! Votes: 0

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. Votes: 0

Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration. Votes: 0

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps. Votes: 0

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable. Votes: 0

Without the concentration of the mind and the will, performance would not result. Votes: 0

Fear forces you to attend to matters with the utmost grace and concentration. Votes: 0

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order." Votes: 0

We need physical exercise to prepare our brain for long periods of concentration Votes: 0

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. Votes: 0

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration. Votes: 0

What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals. Votes: 0

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas. Votes: 0

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones. Votes: 0

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. Votes: 0

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket. Votes: 0

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine. Votes: 0

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp. Votes: 0

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. Votes: 0

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. Votes: 0

Practice is not a matter of years and months. It is a matter of concentration. Votes: 0

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence. Votes: 0

If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor Votes: 0

My training was based on concentration, and it's impossible to cheat when you are concentrated Votes: 0

The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity. Votes: 0

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that. Votes: 0

In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence. Votes: 0

Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence. Votes: 0

If you are a professional and have confidence, then I would advocate lots of concentration. Votes: 0

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer. Votes: 0

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration. Votes: 0

One great cause of failure of young men in business is the lack of concentration. Votes: 0

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost. Votes: 0

The first essential for the child's development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. Votes: 0

There are different kinds of concentration required to make a painting, different kinds of being present. Votes: 0

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. Votes: 0

If you don't do something special against Chris Evert you find yourself losing concentration after 35 shots. Votes: 0

...the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback. Votes: 0

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love. Votes: 0

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy. Votes: 0

One makes their own luck, good or ill... and there are no guesses, merely faulty concentration." Votes: 0

My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood. Votes: 0

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration. Votes: 0

Golf is difficult to get your personality over because you are such a bottle of concentration. Votes: 0

When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. Votes: 0

I'm for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai'i now and putting them in concentration camps. Votes: 0

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration. Votes: 0

By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level. Votes: 0

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player Votes: 0

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion. Votes: 0

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere Votes: 0

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. Votes: 0

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. Votes: 0

In a long race, if I'm worried about fatigue, my concentration is the first thing to go. Votes: 0

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. Votes: 0

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go. Votes: 0

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught. Votes: 0

It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration. Votes: 0

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul. Votes: 0

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy. Votes: 0

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. Votes: 0

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had. Votes: 0

It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services. Votes: 0

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. Votes: 0

Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time. Votes: 0

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. Votes: 0

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration. Votes: 0

Our politics has been greatly impacted, for the worse, by big money and the concentration of big money. Votes: 0

Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. Votes: 0

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment. Votes: 0

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom. Votes: 0

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself. Votes: 0

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration. Votes: 0

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets. Votes: 0

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction. Votes: 0

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration. Votes: 0

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles. Votes: 0

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else. Votes: 0

The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power. Votes: 0

There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration. Votes: 0

What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre. Votes: 0

Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies. Votes: 0

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. Votes: 0

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism. Votes: 0

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected. Votes: 0

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century. Votes: 0

I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help. Votes: 0

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form. Votes: 0

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes. Votes: 0

Analysis, if it is really carried out with a complete concentration of his powers, forms and completes a chess player. Votes: 0

Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... Votes: 0

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. Votes: 0

But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration. Votes: 0

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks. Votes: 0

All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or lovingkindness. Votes: 0

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain. Votes: 0

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus. Votes: 0

An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march. Votes: 0

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing. Votes: 0

I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration. Votes: 0

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles. Votes: 0

When we keep our silence we gather our power; when we speak we let loose the concentration of quiet reverie. Votes: 0

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make. Votes: 0

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. Votes: 0

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. Votes: 0

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. Votes: 0

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption. Votes: 0

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place. Votes: 0

A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only. Votes: 0

Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service. Votes: 0

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. Votes: 0

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration. Votes: 0

Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation Votes: 0

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman* Votes: 0

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise... Votes: 0

I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness. Votes: 0

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. Votes: 0

Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow. Votes: 0

I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration. Votes: 0

Socialism and federalism are necessarily political opposites, because the former demands that centralized concentration of power which the latter by definition denies. Votes: 0

Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he'd wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it. Votes: 0

I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation. Votes: 0

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. Votes: 0

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.. Votes: 0

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror. Votes: 0

According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. Votes: 0

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. Votes: 0

The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N. Votes: 0

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. Votes: 0

I don't listen to music before a race - my coach doesn't like it, he thinks I might lose my focus and concentration. Votes: 0

Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing. Votes: 0

Even before the concentration camps, I felt it was my duty to my ancestors to preserve a world which might cease to exist. Votes: 0

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. Votes: 0

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. Votes: 0

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians. Votes: 0

Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino." Votes: 0

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess. Votes: 0

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Votes: 0

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha's path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom. Votes: 0

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. Votes: 0

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. Votes: 0

The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life. Votes: 0

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men. Votes: 0

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. Votes: 0

My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp. Votes: 0

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine Votes: 0

During the Nuremberg trials, Oswald Pohl, an SS Lieutenant General,...is shown here explaining how Farben operated such concentration camps as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind. Votes: 0

A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of the mind. Votes: 0

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. Votes: 0

The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance. Votes: 0

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is. Votes: 0

Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now. Votes: 0

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind. Votes: 0

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. Votes: 0

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems." Votes: 0

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. Votes: 0

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery. Votes: 0

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. Votes: 0

They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world. Votes: 0

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood. Votes: 0

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you. Votes: 0

Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous. Votes: 0

Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken glass. That's painful. Votes: 0

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. Votes: 0

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. Votes: 0

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together. Votes: 0

It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really just concentration and focus. Votes: 0

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic." Votes: 0

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. Votes: 0

By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop by repetitively lifting weights." Votes: 0

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years. Votes: 0

Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. ... Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target. Votes: 0

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond. Votes: 0

I feel like, in a way, after doing it for so many years, you learn a certain concentration and how to turn it on and off. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France! Votes: 0

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Many of us have a mental conception of what a Christian should be, and the lives of the saints become a hindrance to our concentration on God. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain. Votes: 0

Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals. Votes: 0

The secret for mastery is concentration; the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master! Votes: 0

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge. Votes: 0

During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase and sharpen their innate psychic abilities. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness, it is no-pointedness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In God's vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration. Votes: 0

A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying. Votes: 0

...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. Votes: 0

Playing chess has many aspects that can be useful in everyday situations like planning, concentration and combinations. You learn to win but also to lose and to be creative. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy. Votes: 0

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Decrements in attention and concentration, being able to learn more efficiently, that's just not as good. Also, there are motor vehicle accidents, workplace accidents, we see that a lot. Votes: 0

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony... Votes: 0

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read. Votes: 0

Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim. Votes: 0

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day." Votes: 0

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work. Votes: 0

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. Votes: 0

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri. Votes: 0

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable and in character - and economical as well, actually. Votes: 0

Women in America cannot achieve our full economic and personal fulfillment as long as the concentration of wealth and power in the top 1% continues to stifle democratic voices and progressive policies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere is measured. It's uncontroversial. It's going up. We know that has a tendency to warm the atmosphere and we should be worried about that. Votes: 0

Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri, Votes: 0

Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution still exist today throughout the world. Votes: 0

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps. Votes: 0

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration. Votes: 0

For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined. Votes: 0

The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left. Votes: 0

It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials. Votes: 0

Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species. Votes: 0

The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode. Votes: 0

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness. Votes: 0

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With voice overs... you're not thinking about the camera. So your voice becomes this thing that you can manipulate. And depending on the character you're doing, it's all concentration on your voice. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and are given love and attention will not build concentration camps. Votes: 0

With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time. Votes: 0

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army." Votes: 0

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required. Votes: 0

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do. Votes: 0

I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to reach the higher degree of concentration in the later ones. Votes: 0

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy. Votes: 0

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive. Votes: 0

Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity. Votes: 0

a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation"”choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code. Votes: 0

I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands. Votes: 0

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. Votes: 0

Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization Votes: 0

One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on the very top so concentration of wealth doesn't get to extreme levels. Votes: 0

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. Votes: 0

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends. Votes: 0

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting. Votes: 0

The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying to walk in two directions at the same time. Votes: 0

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated. Votes: 0

In contrast to the troposphere, the stratosphere is extremely dry and practically cloudless - the concentration of water vapor is measured in parts per million and is, in fact, comparable to that of ozone. Votes: 0

Every soul confined to a concentration camp of sin and guilt has a key to the gate. The adversary cannot hold them if they know how to use it. The key is labeled Repentance." Votes: 0

Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Then the memory of the Darkling's kiss blew through me and rattled my concentration, scattering my thoughts like leaves and making my heart swoop and dive like a bird borne aloft by uncertain currents." Votes: 0

We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment. Votes: 0

I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only about physical force. You use a lot of concentration; it's really mental. Votes: 0

DEPORT yourself from the coast of negative attitudes and you will give your dreams a lift up from a level of high concentration of repeated failure to an indelible success! God is with you! Votes: 0

Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We go outside of the parameters of mind and thought and experience nirvana. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I watched kids picnicking on the ovens and other people stricken with grief. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. Votes: 0

All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power - in the lawyers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got. Votes: 0

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration. Votes: 0

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it. Votes: 0

One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven. Thus genius works in different ways to achieve its ends. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0