Quotes About Concentration

It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.

criminal law, a field that presented many of the same conditions and offered many of the same rewards as topflight athletics. It had the same elements of intense preparation and concentration, of confrontation in a circumscribed arena, where passion and aggression were bound by elaborate rules, of the final decision, and the emotional charge that went with it: won, lost, guilty, not guilty.

Stop it! Do not think of things that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot think about. Concentrate on what is. Now. You. Not what others say you are—not even what you may think you are. Only the now. And the now is a man who can give you answers.

Whenever you're in a stress situation yourself—and there's time, of course—do exactly as you would do when you project yourself into one you're observing. Let your mind fall free, let whatever thoughts and images that surface come cleanly. Try not to exercise any mental discipline. Be a sponge; concentrate on everything and nothing. Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning.

concentrate on nothing Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and everything. The outlines of the truth were being presented to him, shape by enigmatic shape, each more startling than the last. He was not at all sure he was capable—mentally capable—of absorbing a great deal more.

You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time.

Put a lot of your eggs in a few baskets and FOCUS:

Warren Buffett is saying that portfolio concentration, or focusing on a few investments rather than diversifying, is a better strategy.

Most of the class was in deep thought.

He was annoyed with his mind—it would be a lot easier to do his task well if his mind would just behave and not keep making him scared.

People get more work done when they don't talk.

I had never seen anyone concentrate like that on anything. It was like watching love.

I try to read while eating alone, but the noise gets between my eyes and the page and I can't see through it.

Any concentration of the will displaces life and gives it bias in motion. Reality, he believed, was always trying to copy the imagination of man, from which it derived.

Chess is a sad waste of brains.

When you think about something, you separate yourself from it.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious.

I like to smile a lot before going in the car. I make jokes, even on the grid, and then I can still manage to focus when it counts.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

Grazie a lui mi ero avvicinato per la prima volta al grande mistero, ovvero al fatto che, se mai nella nostra esistenza riusciamo ad attingere qualcosa di speciale, qualcosa di più elevato, ciò accade solo al prezzo di una particolare concentrazione interiore, di una paranoia sublime e, nella sua sacralità, affine alla follia.

Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.

I appreciate not being interrupted in the middle of thinking about nothing.

It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.