Quotes About Concentration

The geography of insurrection, however, was not evenly distributed across Paris. Resistance was concentrated in densely packed, working-class quartiers, which, like Bruges, had complex, illegible street plans.

Meditation can be intimidating. Sitting there doing nothing, just breathing, can be trickier than it sounds. It may feel strange, uncomfortable, or even put you to sleep.

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

Anyone can sing badly, but to sing badly on purpose and make it believable is harder. I listen for the actual melody in my head but sing right underneath or above it out loud. It takes a lot of concentration.

I like Mourinho's sessions: very dynamic, always with the ball. There are no really long sessions or talks. He understands what a footballer needs: twenty minutes, that's it. No time to lose concentration.

Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.

The attention is to be kept pure.

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Attention has to be concentrated upon your Spirit. Then you become the best instrument, your attention very powerful.

Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

To develop stronger focus, develop a greater reason or meaning for your goal.

Failure results from broken focus, and an average person with complete unwavering focus can achieve more than a team of geniuses with broken focus.

Thinking can be done best when you're in that state of mind where nothing can slip under the radar and destroy your concentration.

PENSAR EN MI CINCUEN TA POR CIENTO DEL TIEMPO.

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

Wisdom clears the mind of delusions thus making it more focused to achieve excellence.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Why is London particularly attractive for artists? It's partly this incredible concentration of organizations that have a long history but also the spontaneous and informal culture and the opportunities in London.

You can't relax, even for a millisecond in this sport.

You play this sport in the mind, not only on the field.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

When you are in the goal, you have to concentrate totally on the game, but in a shoot-out when the striker is walking towards the penalty spot, you remember what you have been through and see it as a chance to make the difference.

In a professional kitchen, the idea is to have your cooks not moving much while they're cooking. You want them to stay in the same spot.