Quotes About Concentration

Ici et maintenant, les autres ne sont pas moi, je ne suis pas les autres. Si je ne pratique pas, je ne peux pas comprendre. Si quelqu'un d'autre fait, je ne peux pas être dans ce qu'il fait.

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

She couldn't concentrate enough to lose herself in a book—her lifelong method of escape.

It's just not always that easy, right? To control what you think about. Who you think about.

Two qualities are essential to mindfulness: even-hovering attention and tenacity.

Mental noting can also be a help when you need to focus your wandering, confused, or scattered mind.

At this level of mindfulness, it may help to use the method of naming—bringing to mind a single word that identifies the nature of the disturbance.

Buddhist mindfulness meditation called vipassana, which means "to see clearly

The first training, ethics (also called ethical conduct or moral discipline) is crucial in developing the second and the third, concentration and wisdom, and as such is really the foundation for the other two.

Understanding conventional truth enables the practitioner to develop the method side—compassion, concentration, and ethics—whereas understanding ultimate truth leads to the realization of the wisdom side—emptiness.

Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent.

In each case, I don't have to consciously memorize rules, and then apply them mechanically. I just perceive how the system behaves as a whole, as an entity. Of course, I'm aware of all the details and individual steps, but they require so little concentration that they almost feel intuitive.

Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent. That was something that frightened her: the possibility that she was losing her mind. She was certainly losing her clarity of thought, and that came pretty close.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

I've got no attention span.

My attention span is very short.

I tend to focus on what I'm doing at the moment, and that takes up the entire span of my focus.

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

I have a very short attention span, so sitting down with a book is very difficult for me.

I don't have the attention span for sports.

I have a very short attention span.

I have a short attention span.

My attention span was not great.