Quotes About Concentration

Divided attention destroys best intentions. Singular focus is the friend to success.

Want to go really fast? Slow down and focus.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.

The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Tennis is the loneliest sport

gradually withdrew from all such enterprises and made up my mind to go entirely contrary to the adage not to put all one's eggs in one basket. I determined that the proper policy was to put all good eggs in one basket and then watch that basket

Focus can change literally everything.

In the East, especially in contemplative traditions like those of Buddhism, being distracted by thought is understood to be the very wellspring of human suffering.

Most people who believe they are meditating are merely thinking with their eyes closed.

It's not so much what we pay attention to, it's the quality of our attention.

The first sign of progress will be noticing how distracted you are. But if you persist in your practice, you will eventually get a taste of real concentration and begin to see thoughts themselves as mere appearances arising in a wider field of consciousness.

The true art of memory, is the art of attention

The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless unattentive roving.Lockeon Education,¶ 176.

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

Last period of the day was new gym class. It was her only class that didn't include Evan, which was a relief. She should be functioning at a peak concentration, but he and his luminous eyes kept distracting her. First opprtunity I have, she thought. I'll bite him.

As if it didnt matter what was on, but instead how hard i was listening.

One of the most important tricks for maximizing your productivity involves matching your mental state to the task.

The process of concentrating on the goal every day greatly increases the likelihood of noticing an opportunity in the environment. The coincidence will create the illusion that writing down the goal causes the environment to produce opportunities. But in reality the only thing that changes is the person's ability to notice the opportunities.

DICHTER: O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge, Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht. Verhülle mir das wogende Gedränge, Das wider Willen uns zum Strudel zieht.

Gar manches Herz verschwebt im Allgemeinen, Doch widmet sich das edelste dem Einen.

My work as a painter… is the condensation, the concentration of the hidden, but ever present, sadness that is in all people

Take your eyes away for a moment, then let them return to the object of contemplation, and it is as if you were experiencing the effect for the first time.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.