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Quotes About Concentration

When reporters say to me I'm only doing this because it's my job... that's the same abdication of moral responsibility at the thin end of the wedge that in its most extreme and horrific version ends up with others being prepared to stand as a concentration camp guard.
~ Unknown
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
~ Lloyd Jones
A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
~ Lloyd Jones
For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.
~ Unknown
Success demands singleness of purpose.
~ Unknown
She can't concentrate because trying not to cry is taking all of her focus. She looked up the symptoms of depression and ticked off all the boxes.
~ Lori Gottlieb
Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't going to let it ruin my concentration. So I scooped it up with the corner of the phone book and popped it into the middle drawer of my desk. Out of sight, out of mind. So I have a problem with creepy, dead, poisonous things. So sue me.
~ Jim Butcher
I listened. Listening isn't hard to do. No one has practice at it, nowadays, but you can train yourself to pay attention to your senses if you work at it long enough.
~ Jim Butcher
Raw power doesn't determine all that you can do with magic. Focus matters, too. The better your focus is, the better you are at putting your power in one place at the same time, the more you can get done.
~ Jim Butcher
It was like a fire in my thoughts, my concentration, burning ever more brightly, more pure, refining my anger, my hate, into something steel-hard, steel-sharp. I could feel it burning, and reached for it eagerly, shoving the pain inside to fuel my incandescent anger.
~ Jim Butcher
Miles nodded his head, but said nothing more of the Marat. "You've much on your mind.
~ Jim Butcher
Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
~ Jim Morrison
They lost concentration. After a year I could read headlines, I was told by a friend whose husband had died three years before
~ Joan Didion
A przecie? prawdziwe czarowanie nie jest zgo?a dramatyczne, to po prostu skupienie my?li na upragnionym celu.
~ Joanne Harris
Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.
~ Unknown
Whatever you focus your attention on will become important to you even if it's unimportant.
~ Unknown
If I think, I wont drink. if I drink, I cant think.
~ Unknown
Do not think about the past, do not worry about the future, instead concentrate your mind on the present moment.
~ Unknown
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
~ Vikram Seth
Do only one thing at a time. It is lazy people who want to do everything at the same time.
~ Unknown
Mind your own business or you will undermine your own business.
~ Unknown
For many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes
~ Vilfredo Pareto
Take up one idea Make that one idea your life Think of it Dream of it Live on that idea Let the brain, muscles, nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone
~ Vivekananda