Quotes About Concentration

Su cara toma una expresión especial cuando se concentra. Su expresión habitualmente relajada es reemplazada por algo más intenso y lejano que sugiere todo un mundo encerrado dentro de él.

I stare fixedly at the little black specks on the sheet. For a while, they're obscured by the residual blood droplets that I can't seem to wipe from my vision. Slowly, the words come into focus.

He's . . . he's having concentration problems," I answer. I don't want to say he had a complete mental meltdown.

Purity" suggests a single, uncontaminated, element or quality. "Purity of heart," therefore, is an undeviating regard to God alone, who has become the center and focus of all one's thoughts, words and actions. Only by such purity of heart is the mind of man readied and prepared for the perfect concentration of mind, which is known as contemplation.

Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being

There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Who can work without any attachment? That is the real question.

All this bringing of the mind into a higher state of vibration is included in one word in Yoga — Samadhi.

The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are concentrated, they illumine.

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

When you're a creative person, there are just times when you're not listening. You know, I could be looking right at you and thinking about something else.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

You know what? I'm not always in a positive, happy place. But I'm able to concentrate enough to come up with a really good song.

There's this existential argument that comes in, at some point, when you're over-thinking the songwriting process. There's no guarantee that the more time you spend or the more you concentrate on certain aspects that that's going to produce a better result, especially in the arts.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.

You think you can drive accurately in confined spaces until someone puts something like a shipping container in the way and you suddenly think: 'I'm going to hit that.'

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess.

Napoleon Hill refers to this method as concentration, but today it is most often called creative visualization, and it is the autosuggestion technique widely taught by contemporary motivational experts.

The object of concentrating upon a definite aim is to train the mind until it forms the habit of focusing upon that aim.