Quotes About Concentration

Competitions make me nervous. When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating and not, 'I have to do this to win.' I forget it is a competition.

I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

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

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

For a little while I kind of shunned away from the media and just concentrated on my skill sets and performing and I got that down.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

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

Look for this when you're not concentrating on how rattled Karl Malone was. 5.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

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Just pour the tea, just look into the eye of the flower, just sing the song— one thing at a time and

Chess is the gymnasium of the mind

I will concentrate on lending you the strength of my Spirit,' I said. 'Fine. Good. You do that.

Do you have nicknames for any of your other brothers? The youngster squinted his dark gray eyes in concentration. Well, Tristan is Dare, and sometimes he's Tris; and Bradshaw is Shaw; and sometimes we call Andrew, Drew, but he doesn't like that very much. Why not? He says it's a girls' name, and then Shaw calls him Drusilla.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Effort, 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. [p. 17]

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.

My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration.

I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I'm split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells.

I write and think and study perfectly when with him; apart, I'm split and only can work properly in brief, stoic spells. . . .

It is as if, by concentrating on the "inscape", as Hopkins says, of leaf and plant and animal, I can know the world a new and special way; and make up my own versions of it.

He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.

Distracted from distraction by distraction