Quotes About Concentration

Learn to shut out the distractions that keep you from truly worshiping God.

When you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans." MATTHEW 6:7 NIV

Don't let your mind wander, it's to small to be out by itself.

It's the will that gives us the ability to focus

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something

Chess is life

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

It's just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — the distance between your ears.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

I never look back darling. It distracts from the now.

Del tried to concentrate on the Celtics and Sixers, and, surprising himself, he could. Funny how life worked.

That's all there is to it. It's like grabbing your mind by the scruff of the neck and forcing it to think of a specific thing at a specific moment. Force yourself to do it at first, and it will become habitual before you know it.

Forming such a Link accomplishes two things. It forces you to concentrate on (to be Originally Aware of) the thoughts of the speech, and it will give you the sequence of thoughts. Knowing that you definitely have that sequence also gives you a confidence that you wouldn't otherwise have.

Applied to reading material, the idea forces you to read actively, with concentration; applied to lectures, it does the same thing. It's difficult to allow your mind to wander when you're listening for Key Words to remind you of thoughts. The next time you want to remember more of reading or lecture material than you usually do, try applying what you've learned here. You'll be surprised at how much you retain.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything.

Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.

No matter how much he loved someone, he still couldn't share his life with them. He needed solitary time every day to concentrate, and he couldn't stand it when someone's presence threw off his concentration. If he lived with someone he knew he would end up detesting them. Whether it was his parents, a wife, or children. He feared that above all. He wasn't afraid of loving someone. What he feared was growing to hate someone.

Better not to think at all than to think halfway.

You can't look too far ahead. Do that and you'll lose sight of what you're doing and stumble.

Even though I might go out on a date with a boy, emotionally I just wouldn't be able to concentrate. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. I'd be thinking about one unrelated thing after another. I don't know, I guess finally I want to be alone a little while longer. And I want to let my thoughts wander freely.

She reads with great concentration. Her eyes rarely move from the pages of the book.