Quotes About Concentration

Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention.

You have to concentrate; you have to give yourself to the listening. It takes effort, especially in a time when we are accustomed to sound bites and immediate gratification.

como si dijera: «Ya casi hemos terminado», y ciertamente los chorritos de leche salieron más finos y lentos. Dio un apretón final

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

any man who could concentrate for as much as three minutes on any given problem could rule the world.

Tom sat scowling over a pile of dilapidated books with his hand in his hair, as if his head was in danger of flying asunder with the tremendous effort he was making.

Unfettered markets tended frequently toward monopoly or, at least, toward unhealthy levels of concentration, and government sometimes needed to intervene to ensure the full benefits of competition

once John D. Rockefeller, Sr., set his mind to something, he brought awesome powers of concentration to bear.

We need to leave our lusting forever larger spheres of Christian service and concentrate on seeing God for ourselves and finding the deep answer for life in Him. Then, even if we are located in the most obscure corner of the globe, the world will make a road to our door to get that answer. Our service of help to our fellows then becomes incidental to our vision of God, and the direct consequence of it.

Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.

Somewhere D?gen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don't remember the exact figure, only that it was large and seemed quite arbitrary and absurd, but I imagine that when I am in the cockpit of my plane, aiming the nose at the hull of an American battleship, every single one will be clear and pure and discernible. At the moment of my death, I look forward at last to being fully aware and alive.

noise-canceling headphones

He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.

Nunca me verás a mí mirar ni a derecha ni a izquierda por causa de un augurio.

The key to writing is concentration, not inspiration. It requires deep attention to your characters, to the world they live in, and to the story you have to tell.

In fact, beginning meditators often think that they are able to concentrate on a single object, such as the breath, for minutes at a time, only to report after days or weeks of intensive practice that their attention is now carried away by thought every few seconds. This is actually progress. It takes a certain degree of concentration to even notice how distracted you are. Even if your life depended on it, you could not spend a full minute free of thought.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

They should have focused more on me.

It's just about being in the zone, in any sport, be it football, basketball or baseball.

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always place the highest demands of yourself in the sport.

You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind.

The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.