Quotes About Concentration

When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.

He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from wandering too far into the past. He had his own wounds that refused to heal.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

intensity, as though trying to place

Gamache dug his hands into the bark, feeling the wood pinch his palm, glad for the pain to concentrate on. His horrible fear, and the terrible betrayal, wasn't that he'd trip and fall, or even that the wooden blind would tumble to the ground. It was that he'd throw himself over the edge. That was the horror of vertigo. He felt pulled to the edge and over as if an anchor was attached to his leg. Unaided, unthreatened, he would essentially kill himself.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

the fact that I'd really like to be reading Persuasion right now instead of latticing pies, the fact that I never seem to get past Anne's first reunion with Captain Wentworth lately, because Jake interrupts, the fact that all the older kids were the same, the fact that I have to hide out like Anne Frank almost, to read anything, the fact that I should have a little closet to go to, with a chair, a lamp, and a lock on the door, the fact that I guess it's called a bathroom,

It's like a telescope. My dad, no matter what he's doing, zooms right in so he can't see anything except what's right there with him at that minute. My mom, she's always on wide angle.

Jacob's concept: The concept of Asperger's is like a flavoring added to a person and although my concentration is higher than those of others, if tested everyone would have traces of this condition too.

She turned to stare out the window, lost in a thousand thoughts, not a single one of which Danielle could guess.

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? —BHAGAVAD GITA

Always remember: in life as well as on the mat an unfocused or 'loose' mind wastes energy.

We may stick out the tongue (usually to the side) as we focus assiduously on a task (for example when basketball great Michael Jordan goes up for a dunk)

Concerted (effortful) observation—is absolutely essential to reading people and detecting their nonverbal tells successfully.

It is not often given to human beings to be able to treat a fragment of time that can never return again with the intense and ritualistic concentration appropriate to a moment irretrievably slipping away into an everlasting impossibility of repetition.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."

Consider the past but don't dwell in it. Dream for the future, but don't sleep on it. Concentrate the on the present moment. Snatch every opportunity.

I never look back, Darling - it distracts from the now.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

When you have to study, even the ceiling looks more interesting.

One of the major destruction of man is distraction

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the 'core aspect of the design'