Quotes About Concentration

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

The path is focus. The power of focus is absolutely essential. To stop all thoughts, you have to have tremendous power of focus.

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 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.

Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe.

Out of purity and silence comes the word of power.

The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

No prayer is complete without presence.

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.

The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him. This is an easy thing to allow, but we must guard against it.

productive focus.

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

The incessant concentration of thought upon one subject, however interesting, tethers a man's mind in a narrow field.