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Quotes About Concentration

I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.
~ Sylvia Plath
How can a you hit and think at the same time?
~ Yogi Berra
YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.
~ Bob Hope
mind. He was driving
~ Marian Keyes
Ni siquiera tenía ánimos para concentrarse en la lectura.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
found that with less effort in meditation, I could relax into a quiet, aware state much more easily.
~ Marjorie Hines Woollacott
There were none of the card games marines usually played in downtimes. They were too tired to concentrate, and poker was serious business.
~ Mark Bowden
Cod meat has virtually no fat (.3 percent) and is more than 18 percent protein, which is unusually high even for fish. And when cod is dried, the more than 80 percent of its flesh that is water having evaporated, it becomes concentrated protein - almost 80 percent protein.
~ Mark Kurlansky
What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.
~ Annie Dillard
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
~ Annie Leibovitz
It's more like... It keeps the world out so I can be in my own thoughts.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what happens, You get concentrated criminality, crime in the midst of punishment.
~ Anthony Burgess
The house looked on to other tenement-like structures, experiments in architectural insignificance, that intruded upon a central concentration of buildings, commanding and antiquated, laid out in a quadrilateral, though irregular, style. Silted-up
~ Anthony Powell
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts." —THE BUDDHA
~ Anthony Robbins
Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea.
~ Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges
Para oír hay que callar
~ Antonio Santa Ana
And 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.
~ Arnold Bennett
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man, it is perhaps better to take the knee of the trouser. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously, so that if it be steeped in curiosity as to science it has no room for merely personal considerations.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. Otherwise your energy and attention must be dissipated instead of being concentrated.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
THE POWER OF detaching his mind at will.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle