Quotes About Concentration

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.

Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time

Thinking is the hardest work we do.

I'm too passionate about my work...Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.

Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Successful minds work like a gimlet--to a single point.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work.

A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.