Quotes About Concentration

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Why couldn't he bear down and concentrate? Because he was scared, that's why.

She not only taught but lived music, existed for those hours when she could be concentrated in her being—which was half music, half divine light, only flesh to the degree she could not admit otherwise. At the piano keyboard, absorbed into the notes that rose beneath her hands, she existed in her essence, a manifestation of compelling sound.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man—but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at work, then we share in the act of creating. We not only escape time, we also escape our self-conscious selves.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

Give the present the gift of your full attention.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, "What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

Chris Langan] told me not long ago. I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning. Sometimes I realize what the answer is because I dreamt the answer and I can remember it. Other times I just feel the answer, and I start typing and the answer emerges onto the page.

Your unconscious, in the sense, was acting as a kind of mental valet. It was taking care of all the minor mental details in your life. It was keeping tabs on everything going on around you and making sure you were acting appropriately, while leaving you free to concentrate on the main problem at hand.

And what was the principal implication of coupling? That law enforcement didn't need to be bigger; it needed to be more focused. If criminals operated overwhelmingly in a few concentrated hot spots, those crucial parts of the city should be more heavily policed than anywhere else, and the kinds of crime-fighting strategies used by police in those areas ought to be very different from those used in the vast stretches of the city with virtually no crime at all.

I found if I go to bed with a question on my mind, all I have to do is concentrate on the question before I go to sleep and I virtually always have the answer in the morning.

whose students are willing to concentrate and sit still long enough and focus on answering every single question in an endless questionnaire are the same countries whose students do the best job of solving math problems.

You must be present to win.

Remaining focus is the key to success. You cannot be successful if you are focusing on everyone else

To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.

Investing is like Yoga. Body, mind and soul have to be aligned.

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.

Eliminate distractions and focus on priorities.

The price of winning is dedication and the price of dedication is concentration. To get any of the two you have to accept to toil for both.

In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus