Quotes About Concentration

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared to the activity.

It's never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it's kind of unkillable, poetry. It's our most ancient artform and I think it's more relevant today than ever, because it's one person saying what they really believe.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Never let your eyes and your mind to be in the same place.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.

Unless i'm reading an assignment or doing a paper or taking a test, i'm thinking about you.

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.

Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

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.

To pass time, I concentrated on pleasant memories, laying them out in order and examining them carefully.

Not two things at once, but one thing done in peace.

Attention is an important resource.

When we begin to experience the sacred in our everyday lives we bring to mundane tasks a quality of concentration and engagement that lifts the spirit.

Las perspectivas evidentes de crecimiento físico de un sector no se traducen en beneficios evidentes para los inversionistas. Los expertos no disponen de formas fiables de elegir y concentrar sus inversiones en las empresas más prometedoras de los sectores más prometedores.

He was watching my eyes. A man who uses a sword with lethal skill always matches his opponent's eyes.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Flucht ist hier nicht die Beschäftigung mit der Vergangenheit, sondern gerade die entschlossene Konzentration auf Gegenwart und Zukunft, die blind ist für das Erbe der Vergangenheit, von dem wir geprägt sind und mit dem wir leben müssen

I never found that love, either when it prospered or when it did not, interfered in the slightest with my intellectual concentration.

Power over opinion, like all other forms of power, tends to coalescence and concentration, leading logically to a State monopoly. But even apart from war it would be rash to assume that a State monopoly of propaganda must make a government invulnerable. In the long run, those who possess the power are likely to become too flagrantly indifferent to the interests of the common man, as the Popes were in the time of Luther.