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Quotes About Concentration

When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.
~ Richard Carlson
attention is an act of connection
~ Julia Cameron
I worked as fast as I could, and let my mind travel ahead only a certain distance, no further.
~ Juliet Marillier
I fixed my eyes in the vicinity of the yellowish-brown darned spot around the little green button at your breast.
~ K?b? Abe
Look not left nor right. Look only at your own footsteps.
~ Kadiatou Diallo
We have developed a more logical and discursive mode of thought. Instead of looking at a physical phenomena imaginatively, we strip an object of all its emotive associations and concentrate on the thing itself.
~ Karen Armstrong
Will wasn't a fan of multitasking, mostly because it was more like half-tasking. It was humanly impossible to give two different things your complete attention.
~ Karin Slaughter
La burguesía va aglutinando cada vez más los medios de producción, la propiedad y los habitantes del país.  Aglomera la población, centraliza los medios de producción y concentra en manos
~ Karl Marx
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
~ Orison Swett Marden
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.
~ Andre Agassi
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
~ Martin Luther
Thought is the most highly organized form of energy known to man.
~ Napoleon Hill
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
~ Andrew Jackson
If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.
~ John Ratey
No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
~ Deepak Chopra
In God's vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.
~ Shirley Temple
Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.
~ Kevin Systrom