Quotes About Concentration

I don't normally think of a specific actor. I concentrate on the character, and then when we get into pre-production, that's how names come up.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.

I defy any woman who is pregnant and trying to concentrate really hard not to feel distracted.

In the Premier League, you don't have one second to breathe - you have to be on it from the first minute. If you lose focus - just for a few seconds - the game will pass you by. It's 100 miles an hour.

The mental aspect of being a goalkeeper is very important so you have to go into the game with full concentration and confidence. That is a big part of your game and the Premier League is the most demanding league for any goalkeeper.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

I know how to prepare my head.

You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.

I didn't mentally prepare as well for Ngoudjo as I should have. I was a little lax in the fight.

I always try to prepare as well as possible for matches.

I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

When you watch chess, you don't see the four hours that the player spends preparing for a match ahead of time.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

Presence is in the eye and ear and gut of the beholder. When you are totally present in a conversation or in a meeting, others around you perceive you as totally focused on the matter at hand and on being of value to them.

When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I'm supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety.

For me, it's important to concentrate to the present and leave the past.

Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

Greatness for me is the ability to focus under pressure.

You think about the dangers, you accept them and you go about your job, it is only if you start to think about it too much in the car that you'd have a problem.