Quotes About Concentration

Meditation helps you get in the zone.

Put all thine eggs in one basket and - watch that basket.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

If there is anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in the ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.

One arrow does not bring down two birds.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

I like to laugh, but on the court, it is my work. I try to smile, but it is so difficult. I concentrate on the ball, not on my face.

All good is gained by those whose thought and life are kept pointed close to one main thing, not scattered abroad upon a thousand.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.

Concentration is everything. On the day I'm performing, I don't hear anything anyone says to me.

You can't ring the bells and, at the same time, walk in the procession.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances ... street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometrical progression if there are no interruptions.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.