Quotes About Concentration

Where you place your focus, there will be your Heart and that will be the Spiritual Heart.

Channel your energy. Focus.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

Je me rendis compte que personne - pas même mon père, assis à quelques pas de moi - ne pouvait pénétrer mon espace de lecture, distinguer ce que le livre m'expliquait avec impudeur, et que rien, sinon ma propre volonté, ne pouvait en donner à quiconque la possibilité.

No man can concentrate his attention upon evil, or even upon the idea of evil, and remain unaffected. To be more against the devil than for God is exceedingly dangerous.

Shanta shook her head emphatically, That would distract your attention, and attention is the whole point. Attention to the experience of something given, something you haven't invented. Not the memory of a form of words addressed to somebody in your imagination.

Without the least sense of rush or strain you've been working as fast as one of those extraordinary calculating boys, who turn up from time to time.

The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick; on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.

the ultimate Yoga which gives emancipation, which destroys the sense of separateness which is the root of Desire, is to be made by the concentration of every element of one's being, and annihilating it by intimate combustion with the universe itself.

Gaming was one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing. But even more than that, It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.

I have a writer's concentration: intense, but flickering.

You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.