Quotes About Concentration

All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking and concentration, even if it's just for a few moments.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

The great secret is a controlled imagination and a well-sustained attention, firmly and repeatedly focused on the object to be accomplished.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises.

Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, its power will be diffused.

Pitch within yourself.

Just let go of the need to care about whether it happens or not, then you are free from fear and can then concentrate on focusing.

No daydreaming. No music, film, art, creative thinking or business.

Lose yourself in the music, not the fog

If you try to be everywhere at once, you won't be anywhere at all.

Focus on the dreams, there may be distractions but still, focus.

If we should think, we should dwell on pure thoughts.

I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.