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Quotes About Concentration

Light infantry operations often follow a cycle that can be divided into four steps: Dispersion, Orientation, Concentration, and Action (DOCA).
~ William S. Lind
Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels, or thinks.
~ William Scott Wilson
Musashi and Takuan both believed that the great mistake was being slowed or rendered immobile by what one sees, hears, feels, or thinks. For them, even an instant's preoccupation could be fatal. Both body and mind must be free to flow and to respond to whatever the situation demands.
~ William Scott Wilson
At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts
~ William Styron
Solar energy, in its many forms, has accustomed us to the idea that using energy must create huge environmental impacts, either by polluting or by occupying vast tracts of land. Terrestrial energy is so highly concentrated that it can provide us with enormous amounts of energy while barely leaving a trace. Combined with the contributions of solar power, terrestrial energy offers us the opportunity to power the world while eliminating all manners of environmental degradation.
~ William Tucker
Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
~ Willie Sutton
If you really want to focus on something, says Castellanos, the optimum amount of time to spend on it is ninety minutes. "Then change tasks. And watch out for interruptions once you're really concentrating, because it will take you twenty minutes to recover.
~ Winifred Gallagher
las personas de éxito se caracterizan tanto por su intensa concentración como por sus capacidades.
~ Winifred Gallagher
Cada puesta en marcha requiere un esfuerzo, pues tienes que volver a revisar tu memoria. La multitarea tiene un precio, y a
~ Winifred Gallagher
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
Toda ciencia nace, naturalmente, de una concertación del pensamiento. Pero esta concentración tiene un carácter muy especial en la ciencia: es la atención a la vida, a sus necesidades.
~ Xavier Zubiri
When I closed my eyes, the world was filled with sound.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I'm thinking at the moment. Thinking. And to have my thought interrupted is like being strangled. Don't you know that barging in here when I'm with my numbers is as rude as interrupting someone in the bathroom?
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Within my roasting brain cells, the scraps of thought refused to cohere.
~ Y?ko Tawada
Mindfulness is when we focus on the present moment, instead of being caught up in our thoughts.
~ David Michie
Concentrate your time, your brains, and your advertising money on your successes. Back your winners, and abandon your losers.
~ David Ogilvy
Moraleja: si eres una población próspera, que vive en altas concentraciones pero está expuesta a nuevas infecciones, es solo cuestión de tiempo hasta que llegue la próxima gran pandemia.
~ David Quammen
When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.
~ David Rakoff
For the English player, more comfort is not required. He sits straight as a poker on his chair, keeps his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets, and does not move until he for an hour has [surveyed] the chessboard. His opponent has sighed hundreds of times when the Englishman eventually moves his piece.
~ David Shenk
doing an excellent job of ignoring
~ David Wong
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.
~ Dawn French
How can I expect to get anything done around here with you touching me like that?
~ Faith Sullivan, Meant for Me
Sometimes, the only way out is all in.
~ quotewriter
When you focus on your focus, you will soon become the focus.
~ Sesan Kareem