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Quotes About Concentration

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.
~ Grace Slick
No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it
~ Tom Araya
The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.
~ Johnny Miller
No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.
~ Quentin Crisp
The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.
~ Chris Prentiss
Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.
~ Dalai Lama
Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing - are associated with a lower risk for dementia.
~ Norman Doidge
Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.
~ Frederick Lenz
How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?
~ E. Lockhart
Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something
~ Bob Proctor
No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.
~ Raymond Pettibon
Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.
~ Pedro Martinez
Passion focuses your mind to one thing that you are doing and leaves no space for something else to enter" - Ashutosh in the book "Songs of the Mist
~ Shashi, Songs of the Mist
One of the greatest help you can give to yourself is to kill distraction
~ Topsy Gift
Chess: It's like alcohol. It's a drug. I have to control it, or it could overwhelm me. I have a regular Monday night game at my home, and I do play a little online.
~ Charles Krauthammer
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Meditation is bringing the mind home.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.
~ Adolf Hitler
Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.
~ Warren Spahn
The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.
~ Napoleon Hill
I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Aim at the ground, you'll never miss.
~ Kristine Thomas
Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.
~ Steven Brust, Iorich
I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah