Quotes About Concentration

The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you miss your moment in an orchestra, there is no forgiving.

The best thing for your psyche as you try to accomplish anything, really, is to just concentrate on all the little things. And not just as a means to an end, but truly enjoy them.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down...

By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace we want it to be.

The eye looks past the target, to where the weapon is intended to reach. When it fails, shock thunders through the body. Every muscle, every bone. I can't even remember the last time it so utterly failed.

This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

I had discovered that the concentration required for crossing new territory seemed to quell the phantoms, dim their shapes, and silence their whispers, which was probably the real reason why I had not headed back to Taparak when the weather turned.

He suppressed any thought of Ishtahar and tried to concentrate on the lithe, young body against him.

He wished Owen would move his hands. It was impossible to think when they lay upon his body.

One moment of lapsed concentration and the tide of years would come crashing in, obliterating everything.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

I did 'Jersey Shore 6' sober, and you really just concentrate on yourself and just being the best person that you can be or be better than you were the day before.

Societies that depend on natural resources tend to have certain inherent problems. The limited concentration of wealth - whether from oil, coal, diamonds, or bauxite - often leads to corruption and authoritarianism.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

I think, at some level, if we concentrate on problems as opposed to solutions, then you just create more problems.

I get so engaged when I have a problem you cannot solve that I just cannot break away from what I am doing - I keep thinking and thinking and cannot stop.

As one can solve maths by concentrating do I focus on certain places in my body and generate heat because of it.

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.