Quotes About Concentration

Calm, Corte. Whatever happens you have to stay calm. When you look into your opponent's face, when you talk to him, it should be like you're discussing cornflakes. Never more emotional than that. . . . Emotion's deadly. What

shorthand at seventy words a minute.

Mindfulness is based in a daily meditation practice

La observó con tal concentración que hasta dejó de existir

The essential achievement of the will is to attend to one object and hold it clear and strong before the mind, letting all others-its rivals for attention and subsequent action-fade away like starlight swamped by the radiance of the Sun.

Attending to one sense, such as vision, does not simply kick up the activity in the region of the brain in charge of that sense. It also reduces activity in regions responsible for other senses. If you are really concentrating on the little black lines and curves on this white page, you are less likely to feel someone brush against you, or to hear someone speaking in the background.

Intention governs attention, and attention exerts real, physical effects on the dynamics of the brain.

The sun's rays, focused, are much more powerful than they are without focus. The same is true for people seeking power.

I like work. it fascinates me. I can sit and stare at it for hours

You are truly focused when you're so focused that you don't know you're focused.

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

I'm sorry. I had the volume at a very high level, and the world sort of disappeared.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Novel writing is solitary work.

One can either work or meet. One cannot do both at the same time.

Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and having to stay alert and concentrated. Maybe that keeps your mind alive.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.