Quotes About Concentration

without the power to concentrate that is to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

I have found you can still get the pump to come if you focus and concentrate hard enough.

Cats have an infallible understanding of total concentration — and get between you and it.

I got my qualification in accountancy, but now I prefer to concentrate on football.

Hindu sages say that you should concentrate while eating. But, we don't have time anymore. Fast food is not quick enough for me. I would like super-fast food in the form of pills.

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really think about a problem. You might have a quick idea, but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully, you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

The number one rule of fishing is be quiet. Don't scare the fish!

I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study.

I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.

Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.

What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

Somehow when I am at the racetrack, I don't really realise what is happening and I just focus on the job.

If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.

When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.

I know you can't lose concentration when you get in range, otherwise you'll get caught with something.

Every time you play against somebody like Giannis, you have to be really locked into the game plan.

I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.