Quotes About Concentration

No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch.

There is no point making ourselves nervous before a match.

There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not true. One learns to control and suppress it. But it doesn't lessen. It simply hides and concentrates itself in more discreet places. When one accidentally stumbles into one of these abysses, the pain is spectacular.

From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

Let one concentrate all his energies in one single great effort, let him perceive a single truth, even though he be consumed by the sacred fire, then millions of less gifted men can easily follow. Therefore it is not as much quantity as quality of work which determines the magnitude of the progress.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

driving the parties into the pockets of concentrated capital, increasingly financial: the Republicans reflexively, the Democrats—by now what used to be moderate Republicans—not far behind.

The tension was slipping away from under his fingers as he touched her, and building everywhere else. A kind of gathering inside her, a concentration of heat. The pressure in her chest was so sudden and strong it made her breath short. The muscles in her stomach began to twist, tighten. Ache. "My face doesn't have anything to do with what I am." "Maybe not, but that doesn't take away the pure pleasure of looking at it.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All those little doses of emotion.

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. You can't concentrate. You can't think. There's always some noise worming in. Singers shouting. Dead people laughing. Actors crying. All these little doses of emotion. Someone's always spraying the air with their mood.

The most undervalued thing in this world is the time, attention, concentration, and patient effort of unhurried human beings.

Taishakuten ruled Tenkai by fear to prevent the six stars from gathering but…that only encouraged their concentration—as was meant to happen.

aimed not at military concentrations, but at total populations. He

Can you hear me, Todd? There's an ambulance on its way." For a moment his eyes opened a little wider, and he seemed to be making an effort to concentrate on the face in front of him. "It's Maxine," she said. "Remember me?

FBI SPECIAL AGENT Miguel Gomez leaned

Like water, which heated to a hundred degrees will bear no increase of temperature, human thought attains in certain men its maximum intensity.

for the war gave us the war of nerves and it gave us the concentration camp.

La Segunda Guerra Mundial enriqueció nuestros conocimientos con los estudios sobre «psicopatología de las masas» (si se me permite parafrasear el título del libro de LeBon), pues nos legó la guerra de nervios y la experiencia imborrable de los campos de concentración.

Daba una conferencia sobre la psicología de los campos de concentración! Al delimitar científicamente los hechos, lo que me oprimía cobraba relieve y una cierta perspectiva. Con ese método conseguía distanciarme de la situación y superar de algún modo el sufrimiento, contemplándolo como si ya hubiera sucedido. Mis problemas se transformaban en el objeto de un estudio psicocientífico que yo mismo estaba realizando.

A pesar del primitivismo físico y mental imperantes a la fuerza, en la vida del campo de concentración aún era posible desarrollar una profunda vida espiritual.

at the lectern in a large, beautiful, warm and bright hall. I was about to give a lecture to an interested audience on, "Psychotherapeutic Experiences in a Concentration Camp" (the actual title I later used at that congress41

So intense was Kennedy's concentration that she hadn't