Quotes About Concentration

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.

I'm always interested in projects. Whatever I do, I'm interested in the color of the material. I'm not interested in who's making it. I'm more concentrated on the work.

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I will not concentrate on this note.' You cannot ignore things the way you do in the rest of your life.

I call golf with my head and my heart. I don't have any notes in front of me - it's different from basketball and football in that feel.

Ever since third grade - I never even noticed it until after the game - people were telling me how crazy my dad is. I think I'm so locked in when I'm playing on the floor, I only hear him maybe during timeouts or when we're up 20 or 30 and I'm on the bench. But when I'm in the game, I don't hear him.

On 'Bake Off' there's lots of stuff no one notices until afterwards. At the time you're too busy concentrating. All the other bits, like the funny innuendoes, often go over your head.

The modern notion of background music is a loud thump, thump, thump. It isn't only conversation it kills but also concentration.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

Writing is a very isolating occupation.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

He sat up quickly, pulled the book out from under him, put on a green eyeshade, and waited with his pen poised in the air.

Art is the opposite of dissipation, in the physical and spiritual sense of the word: it is concentration, desire that seeks incarnation.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world.

The creation of a thousand forests is in a single acorn. Concentration

Com o passar dos anos, aprendi a concentrar minha energia no presente, a ter plena consciência do que está acontecendo e não me preocupar com o que deveria ter acontecido, com o que está acontecendo de errado ou com o que pode vir em seguida.

It is, says Professor Mathews, only by continued, strenuous efforts, repeated again and again, day after day, week after week, and month after month, that the ability can be acquired to fasten the mind to one subject, however abstract or knotty, to the exclusion of everything else.

people. They do all their work three times over: once in anticipation, once in actuality, once in rumination. I do mine in actuality alone, doing it once instead of three times. This was by the intelligent exercise of Mr. Beecher's will-power in concentrating his mind upon what he was doing at a given moment, and then turning to something else. Any one who has observed business men closely, has noticed this characteristic. One

The highest reputation in every department of human exertion is reserved for minds of one faculty, where no rival powers divide the empire of the soul, and where there is no variety of pursuits to distract and perplex its energies.