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Quotes About Concentration

I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.
~ Katie Taylor
I think it's not very enjoyable for me to move on grass and play because I'm thinking too much!
~ Gael Monfils
When I am out there I pay no attention to the crowd and just move on with playing the game.
~ Steve Smith
I keep both eyes on my man. The basket hasn't moved on me yet.
~ Julius Erving
The most interesting thing to me in chess are not the gambits. Or the moves. It's the mental toughness.
~ Edward Zwick
I'm the type of guy who gets on the end of things. I need to work on my heading and sometimes my concentration is poor but you need someone to finish off moves.
~ Bradley Wright-Phillips
I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.
~ Daisy Fuentes
Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.
~ Norman Jewison
I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.
~ Ornette Coleman
I'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.
~ Guler Sabanci
What we tend to forget in a skill-based game, is that if you start paying too much attention to mind games, you'll get into all kinds of avoidable issues. It's not easy to ignore them, but you have to try.
~ Anil Kumble
There's no such thing as multitasking.
~ Jim Loehr
Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.
~ Daniel Levitin
I don't believe in multitasking. I rather believe in doing one thing at a time.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
I'm not good at multitasking.
~ Patrick Chan
We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn't concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn't me.
~ Alfie Allen
I did have a problem concentrating on anything for more than 10 seconds. I was one of the first kids in the U.K. to go on Ritalin, and my mum hated it, and I hated it.
~ Alfie Allen
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
~ Paulo Coelho
When I'm shooting a music video, when we're midway through the day, I need everyone to be quiet while we're getting ready for the next scenes. That's really important for me to be able to keep my head in the game.
~ Bree Runway
A musician's whole life is to listen.
~ Wynton Marsalis
I would never shortchange an audience. I believe in doing every single performance with as much integrity and concentration and feeling as I can muster.
~ Nigel Hawthorne
My generation was advised to focus on one area to excel.
~ Sreenivasan
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
~ Chuck Close
I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.
~ Billy Corgan