Quotes About Concentration

A monster, in comparison, can be no more than a guide -- unless it fuses (like Yog Sothoth) into the enveloping extracosmic fabric, as a super-sentient concentration of doors.

One had to sit still and really quiet to really see, really hear.

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

Zooming into the boundary of the M-set, we find smaller and smaller island molecules, surrounded by increasingly intricate circular patterns, evocative of Oriental art, particularly in the meditative designs of Buddhism known as mandalas.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

Having said that, the enchanted wanderer seemed to feel prophetic inspiration coming upon him anew and lapsed into quiet concentration, which none of his interlocutors ventured to interrupt with any new question. And what more could they have asked him? He had divulged the story of his past with all the candor of his simple soul, and his predictions remained in the hands of Him who conceals their destinies from the wise and prudent and only sometimes reveals them unto babes.

AMANDA [overriding him]: Now, Victor, I refuse to discuss anything in the least important until after breakfast. I couldn't concentrate now, I know I couldn't.

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a lower risk for dementia. Dancing, which requires learning new moves, is both physically and mentally challenging and requires much concentration. Less intense activities, such as bowling, babysitting, and golfing, are not associated with a reduced incidence of Alzheimer's. (254)

6. Slowness of movement is the key to awareness, and awareness is the key to learning. As

We often praise "the ability to multitask." While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to abiding change in your brain maps.

His powers of memory were awe-inspiring, but only about matters on which he had fearsomely concentrated his mind.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

Postcards of landscapes, panoramas of old ruins, postcards ambitiously prepared so as to show as much as possible on that flat space, are slowly being replaced by photographs focusing on details. This is no doubt a good idea, because they relieve tired minds. There is too much world, so it's better to concentrate on particulars, rather than the whole.

Skaitymas - gana sud?tingas psichologinis percepcijos procesas. <...> Tai reikalauja tam tikros intelektualin?s kompetencijos. Bet vis? pirma, reikalauja d?mesio ir susikaupimo - vis retesni? geb?jim? šiandieniniame pernelyg blaškan?iame pasaulyje

Radio stations broadcast without interruption the music of Chopin, since it is thought that this favors concentration and serious reflection.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

The act of correctly seeing this world from this state of concentration (jyo) and the world of samadhi is called "wisdom." In other words, wisdom is the act of perceiving things of this world as they truly are.

show) with the character tan (single). That is to say, the character for zen means "to show singleness of mind.

When all are seated, the jikijitsu claps the taku (wooden clappers) once, followed by the four successive rings of the small metal bell called inkin at measured intervals. This is the sign of shijo, which means the beginning of samadhi or zazen. In the ensuing period of quietness, the slightest movement of our bodies, even coughing, is forbidden.

Further, to have concentration without wisdom is to idly come to a standstill in an empty world.