Quotes About Concentration

I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped, some of the fragments of the afternoon might be collected, and I concentrated my attention with careful subtlety to this end.

Across clearings, an eye, A widening deepening greenness, Brilliantly, concentratedly, Coming about its own business.

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely

Eye contact is still difficult for me in noisy rooms because it interferes with hearing. It's like my brain's wiring lets only one sense function or the other, but sometimes not both at the same time. In noisy rooms, I have to concentrate on hearing. Some

Tal vez los monjes que se concentran en sus cantos y meditaciones son un pouco autistas. He observado que hay una gran similitud entre ciertos rituales de oraciones y cantos y el balanceo de un niño autista. Creo que tiene que haber algo más en eso que simplemente colocarse con endorfinas.

Attention-shifting slowness. Once a sound has my attention, I have trouble letting go and moving on to the next sound. If a mobile phone rings during one of my talks, it totally disrupts my train of thought; it grabs my attention, and my ability to shift back is slower than most people's.

We spend roughly 60 percent of our communication time listening, but we're not very good at it. We retain just 25 percent of what we hear.

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa.

blur trying to shy away from the camera. I listen to her advice and on my way to and from work I concentrate on the other

One hour of work in peace and quiet is worth two hours in the office when other people are there, meetings are happening, and you're distracted.

I am gradually approaching the period in my life when work comes first…. No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

My parents thought that I had ADD when I was young," I say, remembering. "I couldn't concentrate well then. That just made me frustrated. Angry. It was only when I started running… running helped me to deal with it.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time, a real comprehension of the beautiful being possible only through concentration upon some central motive.

For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.

We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

Your mind and soul must be completely involved in your work all the time. This is how you will achieve success.

If I'm thinking about work, it's easier to block the irrational thoughts out of my mind.

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the ability to isolate what you're - what you're concentrating on.

Temoya is a place that's isolated from everyone. You can only concentrate on your training there. There are no distractions. You live life in a very different way. There, you learn to value life, to appreciate the things you have.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

I'm always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That's not a manufactured thing; it's just the way I live.

Small issues are really just large ones that haven't been accorded the requisite attention.