Quotes About Concentration

Deep work on simple, basic ideas helps to build true virtuosity—not just in music but in everything.

Don't loseYour headTo gain a minuteYou need your headYour brains are in it.

Drive now. Text later.

Stay alive, don't text and drive.

Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life.

An erection is like the Theory of Relativity — the more you think about it, the harder it gets.

Intexticated: distracted by the act of texting to such a degree that one seems intoxicated.

My body is here, but my mind has already teed off.

Don't major in minor things.

You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don't know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn't the future just another trap?

ibas a ser ejecutado dentro de una semana, tu mente se centraría exclusivamente en ello, y no podrías pensar en otra cosa.

His mind, while he works, is almost quiet, almost calm. This is an act of memory.

He lingers over images of Marie-Laure—her hands, her hair—even as he worries that to concentrate on them too long is to risk wearing them out.

Something other than ghosts on which his mind can fix.

Gulls pass, braying like donkeys, and in the distance the guns thud again, and the rattling of the truck fades, and Marie-Laure tries to concentrate on rereading a chapter earlier in the novel: make the raised dots form letters, the letters words, the words a world.

not shifting so the desk frame doesn't go screek screek, not breathing so he doesn't smell any smells, but sweat is trickling down his ribs, and Wesley Ohman keeps opening and closing the Velcro on his left shoe, and Tony Molinari's lips are going poppoppop, and Mrs. Onegin is writing a huge, terrible A-M-E-R-I-C- on the whiteboard, the marker tip rasping and squeaking, the classroom clock ticktickticking, and all these sounds race into his head like hornets into a nest.

I do bad at school because sometimes I think when I should be learning.

All morning I lay down sentences, erase them, and try new ones. Soon enough, when things go well, the world around me dwindles: the sky out the window, the furious calm of the big umbrella pine ten feet away, the smell of dust falling onto the hot bulb in the lamp. That's the miracle of writing, the place you try to find--when the room, your body, and even time itself cooperate in a vanishing act.

sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

First and foremost, it's a psychological issue and it's mental concentration - that's all it is. We're all big enough and strong enough to hold onto to the ball, it's just whether or not you want to focus in on it.

I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.

When you're overthinking a thought like the way I do, I can get completely pulled away from something I'm in the middle of because my thought channel just won't help me get from point A to point B without any difficulty.

To do Pilates moves correctly, you'll need to concentrate on your abs - keeping them pulled in and up - at all times.

I don't look at my opponent's eyes in the ring. I watch his gloves so that I can block or avoid his punches.