Quotes About Concentration

It's too noisy near the surface. To be able to concentrate with all your being, you must shut out all distractions. You must listen with your soul.

Give your all in the Here and Now, with all of your heart

What you stay focused on will grow.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Stay relaxed; if you begin to get nervous take a few deep breaths slowly to relax yourself and then get back to work. 4) Read the directions slowly and carefully.

Write down important formulas, facts, definitions, and/or keywords in the margin first so you won't worry about

Emotional Channeling Technique #2: Focus Management

Don't follow the passage of air all the way in and out of the body, but rather keep your attention focused on the site where you feel your breath most clearly.)

Once taken off one task without completing the transaction, the mind continues to seek closure. Fight to stay focused on the task at hand.

You have control over the pictures that occupy your mind. — Jeff Keller

Empty away your many thoughts to make room for more needed material instead of thoughts that we will never use. Einstein

Make wise choices about what you read. Read only what is necessary or worthwhile. And then take the time to read carefully. One book read with concentration and reflected upon is worth a hundred flashed through without any absorption at all.

In effect, writers give us a transcript of how the brain works because they look at the images turning up in their own minds with such concentration and dedication.

The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental breakdown, the great physician William Osler told the students of Yale . . .

Hush," she said. "I'm thinking at the top of my lungs.

Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

Better to live a life of single-pointed focus, he taught.

She pushed yesterday, and everything in it, out of her mind, addressing herself, as the sensible should, wholly to the actual moment.