Quotes About Concentration

Michael Atherton's powers of concentration never cease to amaze me. When you need reminding what Test-match batting is all about, who else would you have at the other end?

If I get tired, my concentration goes away. My decision-making isnt as razor sharp as it was. I will repeat myself; my memorys not great, I forget words.

The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

Like my colleague, I represent a large Assyrian community in central California, one of the largest concentrations of Assyrian Americans anywhere in the United States.

You don't go hunting for a deer and shoot 50 rounds.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

I like the hypnosis. Nothing too deep - just enough to keep me clearer and more focused.

I let the images crowd my mind before I start writing a script.

We've lost the ability to immerse ourselves in things.

For the two or three weeks you work on an episode, you totally immerse yourself.

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

I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.

In certain situations, players should protect themselves by not losing track of the most important things in their job.

Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'

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

I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.

It's better to be incognito because otherwise everyone is talking to you because they know you - and you can't concentrate on the training because everyone is talking to you.

The concentration of U.S. income and wealth in the hands of the very rich is a new development in my lifetime.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

Attention is a drug. There's no going back.

Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.

Worship is focus.