Quotes About Concentration

out from under it. "We never do anything well 'til we cease to think about the manner of doing it." —William Hazlitt

The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.

Canning is a whole world of a thing to do. It requires that you get out of your head. It's a Zen thing. You cannot be wondering about your inadequacies and how they drove Bob off and be making jelly. You'll wind up with big, cylindrical jujubes.

How do we set about not imagining something?

Fear's ploy is to stop us looking at him, or indeed anything else, closely and attentively. When panic strikes it helps to remember that the simple act of paying attention is calming. In fact only attentiveness brings peace.

The ultimate insanity is to so organize society that power, wealth, and information are concentrated in the hands of so few people that they have the power, for whatever reason, to put to death our species and the living earth as well. But so we have.

Attention energizes, and intention transforms. Whatever you put your attention on will grow stronger in your life. Whatever you take your attention away from will wither, disintegrate, and disappear.

Experience isn't a place; it's a focus of attention. You can live there, at the still point around which everything revolves.

Para notar algo hay que ignorar todo lo demás. Así es como lo no circunscrito se vuelve circunscrito. Cuando noto algo, ignoro todo aquello que lo rodea pero que contribuye a su existencia y, por lo tanto, forma parte de él.

To build wealth, an investor should [forget] about the daily financial weather, like market news and headlines, and instead concentrate on growth of wealth over time,

Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in terms of effect.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

Details are all there are.

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

Meditation, otherwise known as sitting still and thinking about nothing, is one of those things that can be just as stupidly simple as it is surprisingly hard.

Das, worauf Sie Ihren Fokus richten, wird Ihre Realität.