Quotes About Concentration

Some master meditators achieve a particularly concentrated state of mind, samadhi, in which their mind is capable of gaining profound insights into reality.

Olga Rudge told a story about Wanda Landowska, the renowned harpsichordist. Landowska had been interrupted in mid-sentence by the arrival of friends and a fuss about tickets, and had come back after a quarter of an hour and continued her sentence from where she left off. 'Is it the working with different voices in the fugues etc. makes her able to keep all the threads in her hand separate and distinct?', Olga wondered, 'like in a way the cantos?

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Limit your life to concentration on the self and your world can only be small. Embrace interconnectedness and unity and the world becomes endlessly full of possibilities.

If you lose track of time, you lose track of your mind. You don't go crazy necessarily, but your thoughts wander. They go on permanent vacations.

Today, no matter where I'm going and no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to see that which I am wanting to see.

Religion demands above all the concentration of the spirit...it is a thrusting into the unity of all things so as to come to grips in the hiddenness of the soul with the unity of the One from Whom it all comes.

The art of reading and studying consists in this: Remember the essentials and forget what is inessential.

T]he individual man, provided he wants to achieve some great end... must always concentrate his efforts on one definitely limited stage of his progress, which has to be completed before the next step is attempted. Those who don't attempt to realize their aims step by step, and who don't concentrate their energy in reaching the individual stages, will never attain the final objective.

Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

I never look past an opponent that I have.

I have negative feelings towards Pat Curran, but I can't let it affect me during the fight. I won't use my anger during the fight. If he thinks he will make get emotional during the fight, he's dead wrong.

I have ADD. I can't pay attention to one thing too long.

People assume I'm fearless. A lot of the things I deal with are pretty scary. Fear makes you pay attention - it's about absolute concentration.

We want you to pay attention.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

I'm single, which is good because I can concentrate the hell out of my performances. At some point, I'm going to want to find someone to chill out with at the end of the night and talk about things.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.