Quotes About Concentration

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

The sort of man who, throwing a stone upon the ground, would miss.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.

But now Jay's mind was so full of other things that he could no longer hear the bird's song.

Awareness, when managed and directed, becomes attention. By turning into attention, awareness becomes localized, and attains a focal point. Because of this feature, attention has the power to direct energy.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

Place your concentration in the center of your palm. Concentrate on making that part of your palm warmer than the rest of your hand. After a while, compare the temperature in the center of your palm to another part of your body.

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

There were now fourteen hundred quartered here with more arriving weekly as concentration camps in Poland, France, Belgium, Austria, as well as Holland were evacuated toward the center of Germany.

Wherever you are, be all there.

I watched as the silver Mercedes without snow tires made its way up Fetterman taking a right on Aspen and thought about a man who had escaped the concentration camps and now drove a German car. The Hun be damned.     I

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

But anyone who has experienced flow knows that the deep enjoyment it provieds requires an equal degree of disciplined concentration.

the concentration is usually possible because the task undertaken has clear goals and provides immediate feedback.

Your ability to form a strong intention, to concentrate, and to get and stay focused while feeling detached from concerns of daily life—relaxed, open-minded, and emotionally energized—are essential.

and what is more annoying than to be chatted to when you are absorbed in a book?

For people who grew up hunting, especially war veterans, shooting often settled the mind. It was something that required full concentration, and therefore took you away from your troubles, at least for a short time.

I've had mental errors before while not shooting the ball well and while shooting the ball well, and vice versa. So I can't compound one on top of the other. It's just a matter of getting out of the groove of shooting bad and just staying more locked in.

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

I was always good at video games like 'Guitar Hero,' which require the player to press buttons at precise times.

I like watching anime or music videos and stuff like that, just to get my mind somewhere else, to make it feel like I'm not in the arena, not in the gym, so when I step on the court, I'm locked in.

Solar-sized star formation requires extremely cool temperatures—tens of kelvins. Overly high temperature gas never gets sufficiently concentrated to ignite nuclear burning.

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