Quotes About Concentration

Similarly, although patterns of centralized national authority differed radically among the European nations, the general trend in each of these areas was toward greater concentration of political power pointing toward the modern nation-state.

everything else out of his mind the way

And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.

Not only are targeted, racialized groups "massified" for control with disintegrative consequences, but society as a whole also undergoes another form of massifying: a destructive balkanization of poorer groups made subordinate to an increasingly concentrated wealthy elite. Society

As UCLA historian Sarah Haley notes, in earlier periods when the numbers of the confined were "only" in the tens of thousands, the prisons still concentrated, "massified," the lives of targeted groups, particularly African Americans in post-slavery U.S.A.

You choke when your focus switches from the individual point you are playing or delivery you are facing and start worrying about your situation in the wider context of the game — or, indeed, how you fared on previous points or even in previous games.

antidote to choking or the yips is always the same: focus on this moment, this point, this delivery and nothing else.

Gymnasts don't become dizzy, because they have kinesthetic body awareness, which is a fancy way of saying they know where they are at all times. Gymnastics made me so flexible that I could do the splits. It made me so strong that at one point I

forty-nine thousand Jews in Italy at the time of the Nazi invasion, some forty-one thousand evaded arrest or survived the concentration camps.

Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket.

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears.

He was listening so I don't remember.

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

I can see her weighing her response, concentrating like a cliff diver studying the ebb and flow of the tide."Um, well... could you at least give me an idea?""Two weeks give or take a week or two.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus.

Don't talk too much, be focused on the goal and achieve it.

If you have more than five goals, you have none.

Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Golf is a stupid game. You tee up this little ball, really this tiny ball. Then you hit it, try to find it, hit it. And the goal is to get it into a little hole placed in a hard spot.