Quotes About Concentration

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

I like to understand, very specifically, what it is I'm seeing, and where it is and where it's going, and a lot of that is just hitting the mark and following the dotted line. But that's good, too because there's concentration and focus that's involved in that.

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

I played with Romario. Sometimes you think he's sleeping, then in one split second he's scoring. It's a big quality. That means a lot of concentration for defenders. He's always fast, always on the line of sight. That's his best quality.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

A lot of goals are scored when defenders lose their concentration for a split second and a forward makes a run in behind or gets that one extra step that leads to a shot.

Single matches, I feel, have always been the ones where I can shine more. Three-way, four-way, you have to split your attention with some other guys, and it can be totally great, but when you get into a battle royal with 20 or 30 other guys, it's just so different from what your agenda is when it's one on one competition.

To be an actor you need four things: energy, concentration, a lot of luck and, of course, good roles.

What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.

The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating "fuckface" into Nipponese, but it might translate into "emotional intensity" in football lingo.

Math. Are you able to turn off your mind to the world and fill it with symbols that follow rules?

Do you know about lock picking?" "I'm sure it's like sex." "I'm sure it's not like sex." "How would you know? Everything's like sex. It's the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

Let's concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble," says the psychologist.

Then their conversation turned to work and movies. I tried to contribute, but I had trouble focusing on the words. They just floated into my ear and accumulated there like wax.

it was incredible that this thing should be happening to him. It was what he had read of and had found some difficulty in crediting. It was what they were supposed to do to Jews in concentration camps. It could not be true.

Stop talking. Can't you see I'm detecting?

I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.