Quotes About Concentration

Sometimes you fixate on something so much that everything else fades away.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing.

There is a need to be the best you can be. You can't panic; you concentrate. When I run up to the hurdles, I'm very nervous, but I'll tend to think about technical things to keep my mind focused.

You work every day technically, physically but so much is in the mind. Look at when players go on big scoring runs, then stop scoring. It's not that they are any different physically, it's very often mental, confidence, concentration.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Working is a great distraction technique.

Letting the ball travel is an important mental cue. It's simply about making an attempt to see the ball and to slow it down. It's a relaxation technique used to avoid being jumpy and attempting to hit the ball directly out of the pitchers hands.

All the techniques to help stay calm and focused, to control your mind, have all really helped me.

I make sure that I'm 100 percent ready to go before I put that tee into the ground.

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Logistically, working on a television show and hitting your mark and leaning to your right and knowing where the camera is - I literally felt like I was on another planet.

When you fully focus in the match, you don't think too much about the atmosphere and the climate. Even if the temperature goes up, we will both sweat the same.

I remember, as a kid, my grandfather would grab my temples and say, 'You've got to focus, Jake. You've got to focus.'

Armstrong squinted.

If she didn't have a deadline hanging over her head like a guillotine blade, she couldn't focus worth a damn.

pattern of Jesus at this point means anything at all, it teaches that the first duty of a church leadership is to see to it that a foundation is laid in the beginning on which can be built an effective and continuing evangelistic ministry to the multitudes. This will require more concentration of time and talents on fewer people in the church while not neglecting the passion for the world. It will

we concentrate our army into an enormous fist. The very fact that such a fist exists will prevent the enemy from dispersing his forces in a war of manoeuvre, he will not be given any opportunity to loosen the close 'interlinking' of his army; on the contrary, he will be forced to concentrate, to go over to the defence on as restricted an area as possible. In other words, we get conditions of a frontal war, we force the enemy to accept our view of the character of the war.

Smoking in silence as she concentrated on navigating through the increasingly heavy morning traffic, Strike noted how much he liked making her laugh. He also recognized that he felt much happier, much more comfortable, sitting here in this ramshackle Land Rover talking inconsequential nonsense with Robin than he had felt last night at dinner with Elin.

Intimacy is to love what concentration is to work: a simultaneous drawing together of attention and release of energy.

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

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." — Charles Dickens, in David Copperfield

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