Quotes About Concentration

In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of "deep reading," which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception, and a slower pace.

She could no longer hear the birds. She tried to concentrate on the pain instead—old Moonscar had told her there was a way, somewhere, of using pain as a ladder to climb above pain. It was a very dark way…she could tell only that the blade seemed to be cutting an angle.

Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane

Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool

Bruises mapped my body from bumping into tables and tripping over curbs while walking with a book in my hand, my eyes focused on the pages instead of the live space around me.

But I couldn't concentrate on writing in the notebook. I wanted to live inside it, not write in it.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources.

Ifs" hover in the air above your head all the time when you're doing surgery, like a cloud of gnats. For the most part, though, they keep a respectful distance, only buzzing dimly in the background. Done.

During the match I just try to put the emotions aside. I don't have time to think about my emotions. I have to play one point at a time.

I never attend calls when I am shooting.

I love doing dramas because it's quiet and focused work.

I've always been quiet in the dressing room before the game. I try to focus and give everything.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

Some players listen with one ear only.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

I've always striven to ensure that I work on one film at a time.

When I overthink when I have the ball, that's when I make the error and get myself in trouble.

Look, I try to focus on the essentials, on the games. It is very good for me.

Good memory skill is the offspring of good focus. If you find yourself becoming a little forgetful, it is probably not because there is something wrong with your brain. Rather, it is simply because your mind is too cluttered to allow things to stick.

To think is to unify,

I already know there will be happiness. For even there, next to the chimneys, in the intervals between the torments, there was something that resembled happiness. Everyone asks only about the hardships and the "atrocities," whereas for me perhaps it is that experience which will remain the most memorable. Yes, the next time I am asked, I ought to speak about that, the happiness of the concentration camps.

Keeping my eyes on the page and my head in someone else's story is about the only distraction that works.