Quotes About Concentration

For verily thou dost hereby cut thyself off from other work, that is, by thinking what so and so is doing and why, what he is saying, having what in mind, contriving what, and all the many like things such as whirl thee aside from keeping close watch over thine own ruling Reason.

You can think clearly only with your clothes on.

They were concentrating first on the others. They got them more or less under control before they started in on everybody else.

She's just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it's not, it's the worst, it's the worst feeling there is—incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-righteous and focused and hard as glass, like the view through a telescope. A feeling of total concentration, but total powerlessness. Which must be why it inspires so much murder: killing is the ultimate control.

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present:

She's just jealous, people say, as if jealousy is something minor. But it's not, it's the worst, it's the worst feeling there is - incoherent and confused and shameful, and at the same time self-righteous and focused and hard as glass, like a view through a telescope. A feeling of total concentration, but total powerlessness.

Those who consistently attempt multitasking find it harder to ignore irrelevant information and take longer moving between tasks—in other words, for all their frantic activity, they're actually wasting time. And

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

Focus on your music and not technology.

Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

At no other time has Nature concentrated such a wealth of valuable nourishment into such a small space as in the cocoa bean.

All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.

Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the mind dance. Make it dance on the stage of mantra. For that, mediate and repeat mantra.

Nothing happens without focus. Don't try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.

He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

I am not thinking too far ahead, just want to take it one thing at a time.

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.