Quotes About Concentration

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I never listen to music when I write.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

Wing Chun teaches you what to concentrate on, whether you're here or out in the world dealing with problems. It's second nature for me now. I don't even get to the point where there's a problem.

I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.

The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.

Quiet is the element of discerning what is essential.

It is in vain to chase two birds at the same time, even if you have a thousand legs.

Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.

Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.

Hitting a ball dead perfect - the only peace.

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

An eagle can catch a fish in the ocean of impossibility because he pursues and focuses on only one fish.

You become what you focus on and dream about.

To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

If you want to win, you must win over your mind.