Quotes About Concentration

The dying person should be helped to lie in the optimal position for death, the so-called "sleeping lion's posture." It is thought that this posture naturally calms the erratic flow of an agitated mind and thus it may be helpful to the dying person by allowing him to concentrate more easily.

You're a genius," she said. "Hardly," he said. "I just show up and pay attention.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

MNEMONIC INDUCTION OF LUCID DREAMS EXERCISE 1   Set up dream recall. At bedtime, set your mind to awaken from and to remember dreams. When you awaken from a dream, recall it as completely as you can. 2   Focus your intent. While returning to sleep, concentrate single-mindedly on your intention to remember to recognize that you are dreaming. Tell yourself, "next time I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming," repeatedly, like a mantra.

wishes are like magnifying glasses they enlarge and focus an intention that is already inside us.

These interreflecting themes, the prerequisites of creation, are playfulness, love, concentration, practice, skill, using the power of limits, using the power of mistakes, risk, surrender, patience, courage, and trust. Creativity is a harmony of opposite tensions, as encapsulated in our opening idea of lila, or divine play.

It does not do to hurry the archer, it makes him miss.

Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing.

Focusing is the great secret of power. If you want to use your full amount of focus, you must close down all other thought and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one outcome.

You cannot run at full throttle when applying your mindset to all of the different things running through your head. Focusing is the key to manifesting your desires.

Before aligning the mind, body and soul ... first one has to straighten their mind out.

Your level of your concentration decides the extent of the realization of your dreams.

You taught me about concentration. At first I thought that meant just being still, but I was to understand it meant much more. You meant to tell me to be where I was, not some place in the past or future. I worried too much about tomorrow.

It's the circumstances that create fear. How you respond is all you can control. Concentrate on that, and you'll always succeed.

Management and efficiency studies in the work place tell us that one hour of uninterrupted time is worth three hours of time that is constantly interrupted.

The goal is to minimize the amount of a program you have to think about at any one time. You might think of this as mental juggling—the more mental balls the program requires you to keep in the air at once, the more likely you'll drop one of the balls, leading to a design or coding error.

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to limit it as much as possible.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

Nothing worse than walking out in a Test match and finding your hand slipping on the handle.

In the U.A.E., the wickets are on the slower side. You can't play through the line; you need to take your time and be patient.

Keep your world small, keep your focus on the thing right in front of you and slowly widen out that world-view.

Men don't pay attention to small things.

If you look at the difference games between the bigger and smaller teams, the difference in concentration, and being passive is big; that is my opinion.