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Quotes About Concentration

Things are never easy against whoever you play, which is why every game you have to be totally at it, on your mettle, and totally focused and concentrated.
~ Jesus Navas
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.
~ John Coltrane
If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
~ Jasper Fforde
We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.
~ Gilbert Newton Lewis
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
~ Jimmy Iovine
My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.
~ Edwin Moses
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
~ Rachel Kushner
As in most subjects relating to money management, there's a wide diversity of opinion on portfolio concentration versus diversification.
~ Whitney Tilson
You never think about being wide open. I don't know if I can describe the feeling. Tremendous.
~ John Stockton
My personality's very obsessive-compulsive. I tend to fixate a lot.
~ Mitski
Bands like Culture Club and artists like me, you tend to concentrate on the live arena because that's where you can be your most authentic. That's where you have the most power.
~ Boy George
My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.
~ Ann Makosinski
My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused while I'm on set.
~ Joe Morton
There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.
~ Temple Grandin
The only way you can acquire anything is by writing a cheque. At the end of the day you're writing a personal cheque, which tends to concentrate the mind.
~ Martin Naughton
Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.
~ Novak Djokovic
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
~ Serena Williams
Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.
~ Chris Evert
I'm really trying to focus myself on playing tennis, and I think that's really important.
~ Stefan Edberg
I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.
~ Marion Bartoli
That's my every day: putting things aside and going out there and have two hours of concentration of tennis.
~ Garbine Muguruza
I gave up tennis to study, but not before it had shown me how to focus and concentrate. It taught me self-discipline: I was playing four or five hours a day and doing five-mile runs. When I stopped, my energy had to be channelled into something else.
~ Ray Fearon