Quotes About Concentration

Think of attention as a mental muscle that we can strengthen by a workout. Memorization works that muscle, as does concentration. The mental analog of lifting a free weight over and over is noticing when our mind wanders and bringing it back to target.

all meditation methods at their root are practices in strengthening attention

Não é a tagarelice das pessoas à nossa volta que constitui a fonte mais poderosa das distrações, mas antes a tagarelice das nossas próprias mentes. A concentração absoluta exige que estas vozes interiores sejam silenciadas.

Wilson showed that the cognitive losses from multitasking are even greater than the cognitive losses from pot smoking.

After you have prioritized and you start working, knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

knowing that what you are doing is the most important thing for you to be doing at that moment is surprisingly powerful.

Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling

I'm not concentrating on anything in particular, just reading a lot of fiction now - ... - everything I can get my hands on - feeding a hunger that can't be satisfied.

The absence of causes of contraction such as jealousy, hate, etc., allows consciousness in such moments fully to expand without obstacles in a fullness of bliss, but if even one of those present is not concentrated and absorbed, then consciousness remains offended as at the touch of a surface full of depressions and protuberances because he stands out there as a heterogeneous element.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

I can't... I find that I can't concentrate. On anything. I can't really..." Rhage's eyes drifted to Zsadist. "How do you live with it? All the anger. The pain. The...

All I needed was to be alone and quiet and in the dark, so that my mind could concentrate itself of fearful things, and it could not be unconcentrated sometimes until daylight.

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.

In progressive societies the concentration may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

Since practical ability differs from person to person, the majority of such abilities, in nearly all societies, is gathered in a minority of men. The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history.

The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and the laws. Despotism may for a time retard the concentration; democracy, allowing the most liberty

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation. IX

Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.

She forced herself once more to think of nothing, to keep her consciousness immersed, as a little dog that one keeps under water until he has stopped struggling

If only one had time to think!

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.