Quotes About Concentration

If concentrating on the Divine or the universal in the form of a rock aids in preparing the mind for meditation, such a rock is a great dharma, a noble truth.

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

Fishing is like watching baseball, he says, in that it takes such total concentration that you shouldn't even be noticing little details like your arms and legs and head and mind and the miles- long strings of questions inside it.

at least one player (who had been consuming Ding Dong cupcakes during a marathon match) explosively defecated in his pants midgame.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

anyone can do more, but it will be our thing to do just one.

When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself, not on the thoughts.

only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

90% of the game is half mental.

The notion that too much information can be a distraction is off the mark. The quantity of information is irrelevant; it is the relevance of any quantity that matters.

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.

Whatever I'm doing at that moment, I try to only focus on that because I'm already ADD.

I think I have advanced ADD.

You have to forget what has gone before, get on with the game and focus on that. You cannot afford to be affected and let things worry you.

If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.

My rule is, if you want to build something that does all things for all people, it's not going to work real well.

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.

Il genio è pazienza, come ha detto Buffon. La pazienza è in effetti ciò che, nell'uomo, somiglia di più ai procedimenti che segue la natura quando crea. Che cos'è l'arte, signore? è la natura concentrata.»

What is art Nature concentrated.

Few things in life are as enjoyable as when we concentrate on a difficult task, using all our skills, knowing what has to be done.

Also, he was more discriminating now than he had been then, back in the old days when he would read a book to its bitter end whether he liked it or not. These days, a book he disliked was unlikely to last ten pages of his concentration.