Quotes About Concentration

Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it's the mind that really controls everything.

I'm trying not to focus on the height of my opponent, just to play my tennis and to open the angles because it's the most important.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

There is so much that goes in to being a good tennis player. It's not just what you can do well on the court, it's between the ears as well.

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits. But once on set, it was important to have full concentration.

It feels like you are in your own little bubble when you film 'Bake Off.' There is no noise, the outside world doesn't exist when we are filming. It's us, the tent and the bakers.

I was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job, that's the way I saw it, and I allowed nothing and nobody to distract me from that purpose.

In terms of, like, getting into a mindset, I use music all the time when I'm working.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

Listen. I got three expressions: looking left, looking right and looking straight ahead.

In the worms and fish, there was only one area of positive potential, just as there was only one major nerve ganglion, the brain. In humans the entire head and spinal region, with its massive concentration of neurons, was strongly positive. The three specific areas of greatest positive potential were the same as in the salamander: the brain, the brachial plexus between the shoulder blades, and the lumbar enlargement at the base of the spinal cord.

Symmetry suggests one myth, or significance: the drinking of writers coming from too much concentration, in solitude, upon feelings expressed for or even about possibly indifferent people, people who are absent or perhaps dead, or unborn; the suicide of psychiatrists coming from too much attention, in most intimate contact, concentrated upon the feelings of people toward whom one may feel indifferent, people who are certain, sooner or later, to die...

THE ATTENTION OF THE CIVILIZED world is, at present, concentrated upon The Science of Eugenics. The author sincerely trusts that this important contribution to the data now being so earnestly nosed out and gathered, may aid his fellow students, scientifically, politically and anthropologically.

make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.

Completely give up even concentration, and hold nothing in your mind: you are verily the Self, and therefore free.

The mindfulness meditation I've done has been within a particular school of meditation known as Vipassana (pronounced vih PAW suh nuh). Vipassana is an ancient word that denotes clear vision and is usually translated as "insight.

sonreír a diestra y siniestra fingiendo estar concentrado en problemas de índole filosófica, que es lo que finalmente hizo.

Clare," he said, his voice thicker with desire. He made himself concentrate on the road, on driving, though his peripheral vision showed her breasts rising faster. "Yes?" she asked, quiet, more vulnerable. That vulnerability called out to him now more than ever before . . . because he knew he was flawed so badly. "I like you." Hell, that sounded dumb.

You're always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are." p. 462 Thick to Fitz

There are times when not thinking requires all of one's concentration.

You can hold out longer under torture if you focus on what you will say rather than what you won't. I've heard of men repeating the same phrase, over and over, long past the point where they could hear the questions anymore. By focusing on what you will say, you make it less likely you'll say that which you don't wish to.

focus, I imagined. Only two of the chairs were occupied. Justin and Serene