Quotes About Concentration

Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.

I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.

I'm really so singular, I am only able to work on one thing at a time. I really am.

When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time.

Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.

Gentlemen should not waste their time on trivial games -- they should play go[3]

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless.

The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.

You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good time. You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

When KFKD is playing, we are at cross purposes with the river. So we need to sit there, and breathe, calm ourselves down, push back our sleeves, and begin again.

You can do it the way you used to clear the dinner dishes when you were thirteen, or you can do it as a Japanese person would perform a tea ceremony, with a level of concentration and care in which you can lose yourself, and so in which you can find yourself.

Everything dressed in flesh can yield a dizzling beauty if you concentrate on it long enough, and his beauty leapt out without apology.

The central problem for human freedom is that groups that are well organized enough to defend themselves against others are well organized enough to oppress their own. Power is so readily abused that one could almost say that its concentration is antithetical to freedom.