Quotes About Concentration

Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each

[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

A man is what he does with his attention.

Just checking a website or your phone for a moment can cause a series of internal triggers, and in no time you will lose the motivation and focus you had. This can be a big obstacle for students and employees alike.

When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Focus your entire energy very quietly, very softly, on awakening and realization.

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

Meditation has changed my life

Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

When we clutter our lives with imagined obligations, unnecessary activities, and distractions that only kill time, we dilute the power of our lives.

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

What controls your attention, controls your life

Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.

The term attention deficit disorder completely misses this point. It is not a deficit of attention that we ADD-ers have, it is that our attention likes to go where it wants to and we can't always control it.

In the world of ADD, there are only two times: there is now, and then there is not now.