Quotes About Concentration

Hören Sie auf ihre Zeit managen zu wollen, sondern managen Sie vielmehr ihren Fokus.

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

The final exercise (according to documents obtained by WikiLeaks—Haggis refused to talk about it) was "Go out to a park, train station or other busy area. Practice placing an intention into individuals until you can successfully and easily place an intention into or on a Being and/or a body.

Staring isn't difficult. I can do it all day long. Without blinking, if I want to, which is sometimes painful, but always useful. The trick is to not really look at them, but to focus ten yards beyond, on nothing, which produces a glassy effect, which makes them worry, mostly about what's going on behind your empty eyes.

the only way to keep fear and panic at bay was to concentrate ruthlessly on the job at hand.

a yard and left, Dave," he said. O'Donnell was like a blind man. His eyes were tight on the two guys

No jokes, no banter. No pre-mission

SQUINTED through the

A guy who was taught the front-sight mantra might focus so hard he could lose his peripheral vision.

There was nothing in the fourth stack. Not even a possible. A hundred and sixty gone by. Neagley slid the final forty into place. Reacher watched Klopp. One card at a time, left thumb and index finger, held easy, not near and not far. Decent vision, with his glasses on. Genuine concentration. Not a bored blank stare or an impatient sneer. A calm focus. He was interrogating the photographs, one by one, point by point. Eyes, cheek bones, mouth. Yes or no. No

it's difficult to do productive work and fume simultaneously—the labor dissipates your righteous steam—so

When a person is gripped by a fugue or idea you can't just busy him out of it, not for long anyway.

Deep concentration causes the energy consumption in your brain to go up by only about 1 percent. No matter what you are doing with your conscious mind, it is your unconscious that dominates your mental activity—and therefore uses up most of the energy consumed by the brain. Regardless of whether your conscious mind is idle or engaged, your unconscious mind is hard at work doing the mental equivalent of push-ups, squats, and wind sprints. O

The lesson is that, though we expect our best thinking time to be when we are fresh, our elastic thinking capacity may be highest when we feel "burnt out." That's good to know when scheduling your tasks—you could be better at generating imaginative ideas if you do that kind of thinking after working on a chore that involves a period of tedious, focused effort that strains your powers of concentration.

survival in Nazi concentration camps "depended on one's ability to arrange to preserve some areas of independent action

We are what we do with our attention."64

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.

You're thinking about something, and it makes you forget to talk.

Estás pensando en algo, querida, y eso hace que te olvides de hablar.

But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.