Quotes About Concentration

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

If you can control the rising of the mind into ripples, you will experience Yoga.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Concentrate on being happy, its the easiest way to happiness.

I'm so talented. I can listen to music and ignore you at the same time.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Life's ways are peculiar, unpredictable and uncertain, just like a game of chess which requires planning, strategy and concentration to beat your opponent.

Don't try to make all things possible. Stay with one goal and it will teach you everything.

My days had narrowed to the ambit of my eyes and my fingers' ends.

It was a little like spell-work, I thought, for your hands must be busy, and your mind sharp and free.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

But his is a mind also easily distracted.

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.

Unless subjected to constant discipline the mental processes of the common sign types are apt to be scattered or non-eventuating. There is a distinct tendency to carry along unfinished business and to procrastinate in decision. If left to its own disorder, the mind may deteriorate into a tumbling ground for whimsies.

For example, fatigue produces an increase in adrenaline concentrations. That is, when we are tired, our body chemically responds with a burst of adrenaline to give us more drive or energy.

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front of you at any one time.

Awareness is the key to surviving on a motorcycle. Always be aware of your surroundings, and actively scan your surroundings at all times.