Quotes About Concentration

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

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

Do only one thing at a time. It is lazy people who want to do everything at once.

Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.

Life is like a camera lens. Focus only on what's important and you will capture it perfectly.

Pero, sobre todo, de igual suerte que los escritores llegan a menudo a un poder de concentración de que les hubiera dispensado el régimen de libertad política o de anarquía literaria, cuando están atados de pies y manos por la tiranía de un monarca o de una poética, por los rigores de las reglas prosódicas o de una religión de Estado, así Francisca, como no podía replicarnos de una manera explícita, hablaba como Tiresias y hubiera escrito como Tácito.

And even in my most carnal desires, orientated always in a particular direction, concentrated round a single dream, I might have recognised as their primary motive an idea, an idea for which I would have laid down my life, at the innermost core of which, as in my day-dreams while I sat reading all afternoon in the garden at Combray, lay the notion of perfection.

La gente grande no se acuerda ya de lo mucho que cuesta estudiar. Creen que uno no tiene nada en la cabeza... Y hay que ver lo difícil que es poner atención y no pensar en otra cosa. Porque hay tanto en qué pensar.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion.

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

It's the positive image and assessment of yourself that makes you feel good, capable, and courageous. Inner strength is characterized by self control, self discipline, persistence, peace of mind, and the ability to concentrate. With inner strength comes determination, the courage to persist, the power to change, the spirit of endurance, and the force to challenge.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Focus is key in motivation.

If we learn to concentrate on the happiness that people have brought into our lives rather than living in the suffering that people have caused us, then we will have no one to hate and our hearts will be free from resentments and pain.

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could keep and carry around with her.