Quotes About Concentration

By dedicating so much concentration to the issue of security, bilateral matters pass to a secondary level.

Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.

I've learned things in Italy at the age of 31. Some of the passing drills are so complicated you need a high level of concentration and if you mess up the rhythm, believe me you are told!

When I'm reading a book, I don't notice the passing of time.

You don't just turn up and have a passing game. You can't sit back, you have to be 100 percent concentrated to make it work.

Men frequently get lost in their thoughts and go to far-off places in their minds without even realizing the journey has started or considering the consequences.

The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.

Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth. By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task. It's a great deal. Just put on some earmuffs and you become 5-10% smarter.

Da deres energi på denne måde ikke frit kan strømme udad, føler de sig glædes- og kraftesløse, og oplever som følge heraf verden som overvældende. Især i udåndingens øjeblik, som ellers ville passe til ubeskyttet given-slip, koncentrerer de sig krampagtigt om at beskytte sig selv.

the spirit of Heidegger's dictum that thinking and thanking belong together, so do reading and collecting. The professional reader, the scholar, or the pandit becomes the agent of a novel form of concentration: indeed, he not only collects, he turns himself into a collection, a person filled up with knowledge that moves to and fro between internal and external memories.

Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or a symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.

There's a Zen saying I often cite that goes, "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." The point: Stay focused on the task at hand rather than dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.

Frau Lange, her chins and her dog were waiting for me on the same chaise longue, except that it had been recovered with a shade of material that was easy on the eye only if you had a piece of grit in there on which to concentrate.

The United States has experienced analogous problems of concentration but has a much larger nonwhite population, African Americans

Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.

Tôi ch?c ch?n r?ng khi t?p trung cao ??, ng??i ta ch? có th? nghe th?y ti?ng c?a m?t cây violon n?u ng??i ta th?c s? mu?n làm ?i?u ?ó. Và ti?ng ch? c?a m?t cây sáo hay m?t cây ??i h? c?m.

The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing

Vsakdo mora vaditi svojo navzo?nost tukaj in zdaj. Da bi se tega nau?ili, moramo svoj nemirni opi?ji um vedno znova potegniti nazaj, vsaki?, ko odtava v preteklost ali prihodnost. Pozorni moramo biti tudi na to, da ne zidamo gradov v oblakih in ne premišljujemo o namišljenih situacijah in tako odtavamo s pozornostjo.

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

When you're calculating variations - especially long ones - it really helps to visualize the board.

And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life.

As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.