Quotes About Concentration

Much as I loved doing 'The Big Breakfast,' it almost became automatic. I need something to keep my brain ticking over, something that I have to concentrate on.

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

On a short program, you've got to be tight and you've got to make sure that you get all your points.

1. Running with the Mind of Meditation

Bobby Abbott seemed to have lost attention after the first sentence.

For the fact is that doing two things at once makes it impossible to be present for either because your attention is by definition fragmented.

Play the tennis that is in front of you, not the tennis you played yesterday or the tennis you hope to play tomorrow.

The true painter must be able, before an infinite panorama, to limit himself to reproducing a single ant.

You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.

Nothing so concentrates the mind as the sight of the gallows.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

The Enlightened person is like a clear window through which the light of reality shines, through which that light can be seen almost as it is. Or one can say that he or she is like a crystal or diamond concentrating and reflecting that light.

Foundations of Mindfulness found in the Satipa??h?na Sutta of the Majjhima Nik?ya?

People can only pull you in one direction at a time.

The brain handles tasks sequentially but can switch attention between tasks so quickly that we're given the illusion that we can perform multiple tasks together. So if you want to get more done using less effort, aim to work on what's called your attentional ability: focus and concentrate on one sequence—one task—at a time and avoid distractions.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first.

There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

Time trouble is blunder time.

We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?