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Quotes About Concentration

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.
~ Helen Clark
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
~ Arthur Miller
Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping's concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many.
~ Richard N. Haass
I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind.
~ Paulo Coelho
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
~ Venus Williams
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.
~ Santiago Ramon y Cajal
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.
~ Roger Bannister
The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.
~ Maria Montessori
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'
~ Sue Halpern
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
~ Jock Sturges
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.
~ Steven Pressfield
My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.
~ Thomas A. Edison
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .
~ Muriel Spark
Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.
~ Zadie Smith
I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
~ Mary Oliver
When I work I forget all the rest.
~ Claude Monet
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.
~ Kathe Kollwitz