Quotes About Concentration

sports; they come when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Focus means keeping the mind now and here.

The focused mind only picks up on those aspects of a situation that are needed to accomplish the task at hand.

Natural focus occurs when the mind is interested.

When this occurs, the mind is drawn irresistibly toward the object (or subject) of interest. It is effortless and relaxed, not tense and overly controlled.

I think I'm coming up on the ess curve, so I'm going to hang up and concentrate on driving. In the snow. Which wasn't supposed to happen until tomorrow afternoon. Gee, Kels, I didn't know you believed in the weatherman. Do you still believe in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, too? How about the Easter Bunny? All right. Point taken.

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.

She narrowed her eyes and concentrated on his mouth. Name. He wanted her name. She had to think about it for a second before she remembered. Great. She must have hit her head. Which, duh, explained the headache.

They say you don't need to develop jhanic states, just enough concentration to be with any object for as long as it exists, so you can see that it arises and passes away.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

The Olympic Village wasn't empty for long. The cottages became military barracks. With the Olympics over and his usefulness for propaganda expended, the village's designer, Captain Fürstner, learned that he was to be cashiered from the Wehrmacht because he was a Jew. He killed himself. Less than twenty miles away, in the town of Oranienburg, the first prisoners were being hauled into the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Rather than dividing your attention between twenty goals and doing none of them well, pick one to three goals and execute them brilliantly. Multitasking works no better for team achievement than it does for individual productivity; you're better off single-tasking in a fierce, focused way.

There's little point, though, in being too scattered to master something, or in spending much time on activities in which you can't excel.

Multitasking is, more often than not, inefficient single-tasking.

Afortunadamente, es posible minimizar todo tipo de distracciones. La mejor manera de lidiar con las distracciones "productivas" que surgen en tu mente de forma espontánea consiste en redactar una lista "para después". Mientras estés haciendo el trabajo

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

But at that moment, Danny decided not to think about it — or anything else

She had spent the night planning and now that it was time, she hardly thought at all. It was as if she were standing outside herself, watching someone else do these things.

The way he hadn't even glanced at them, as if he were focused on something far-off on the horizon or deep, deep in the past.

Meditation, or samadhi, is connected with the idea of overcoming the constant search for entertainment.

I was taught that only about 25 percent of your concentration should be put on the breath when you're meditating. This is just a rough estimate, so please don't fixate on the percentage. The point is that in this approach, working with breath is just touching the highlights of the breathing. You don't remain completely one with it all the time.

It seems backward, but keeping your mind focused on the present will get you further toward your goals than keeping your mind focused on the goal itself.

Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.N.B. Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire.

He who defends everything," Frederick the Great used to admonish his generals, "defends nothing.