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Quotes About Concentration

eigentlich jeder irdischen Leistung aufgetan gesehen: Konzentration, die Zusammenfassung aller Kräfte, aller Sinne, das Außer-sich-Sein, das Außerder-Welt-Sein jedes Künstlers. Ich hatte etwas gelernt für mein ganzes Leben.
~ Stefan Zweig
Jakob Mendel] leggeva come altri pregano, come i giocatori giocano e gli ubriachi tengono lo sguardo fisso nel vuoto storditi.
~ Stefan Zweig
Hetty was eating, rather than reading, large slabs of a very thin book of contemporary verse each page having a thick wodge of print, without capital letters, starting at the top and running nearly to the bottom. Her eyes were very close to the book and she frowned with concentration.
~ Stella Gibbons
Meditation increases awareness and sensitivity; as such, it can be an antidote to numbness and distraction.
~ Stephan Bodian
These four practices—concentration, receptive awareness, cultivation, and contemplation—constitute the major uses of awareness throughout the world's great meditative traditions.
~ Stephan Bodian
Stop letting unnecessary thoughts feed your mind. It's nugatory. Focus on your long-time goals and maximize your 86, 400 seconds today.
~ Korina Mercado
The tunnel was the place where vision narrows and the investigator sees only the bird in hand.
~ Michael Connelly
didn't move his eyes from the word even as
~ Michael Connelly
think of baseball, because you don't
~ Michael Lewis
train were harder than usual to ignore. They were
~ Michael Lewis
It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to be able to do one thing at a time, one thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly. Unitasking.
~ Michael Pollan
How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrate it down to manageable proportions, and then force it through the eye of a grammatical needle one word at a time.
~ Michael Pollan
It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking.
~ Michael Pollan
The scientists who do climate research understand that much of the ever increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1850 must be attributed to burning those fossil fuels to produce the energy that drives industrialization.
~ John Olver
I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.
~ Joan Cusack
I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
~ F. Gary Gray
I was always single-minded, never thinking about what was being said or written about me.
~ Tim Henman
I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.
~ Stephen Hawking
Robust activity on one site is so much better than halfhearted activity on multiple sites.
~ Michelle Phan
You know, I don't really judge any other sites. We really focus on our own.
~ David Baszucki
Being closeted often put me in situations where I couldn't concentrate or even think straight.
~ Chelsea Manning
The most productive employees, from my experience, are those who go home at 5:30 P.M. but are hyperfocused at work. People can only think really hard for six to eight hours a day.
~ Stewart Butterfield
When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.
~ Alex Garland
Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
~ Katarina Witt