Quotes About Concentration

You always have in the back of your mind that would be cool if you get recognized. But you can't concentrate on any of those things. You've got to just keep playing and doing your music and the rest is just a bonus.

Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

I need quiet when I'm recording because I don't want any noise in the background.

I just try to hang in there and try to focus every point.

Things are better now that the attention has subsided a bit, and I'm happier. Now I can concentrate on what I'm supposed to do, that is, training and running. Despite everything that's happened, I feel like I'm still the same person.

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

At Harvard, you don't major. You concentrate.

I wasn't an academic. I hated maths and science at school. I couldn't concentrate.

From what I've learned I need to do, is let everything else go and focus on finishing the race and having fun.

I'm the kind of person who likes to be lonely. I got my head down and focused on getting fit.

When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.

I have selective hearing.

I don't like it hectic; I like to keep it calm and do my thing - play the pass. I think you see the pass if you are in a good state of mind.

I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.

I'm always looking at the ball and making sure it goes in. I'm not looking at where I'm at or what level I'm at in height.

When you put your helmet on and you're in the race, I find that's just everything there is in the world.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Once I lose focus that's when I'm going to go tumbling down the hill.

Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called 'abolition of private property' which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals.

It had long been realised that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called 'abolition of private property' which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals.

Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works

Maigret never took notes. If he had a propelling pencil in his hand and a paper in front of him, it was only to make doodles that had no connection with the case.

We've had days of unrest here. The situation is no better than it was a week ago, even if there are no 'incidents' to report. The state of siege continues without interruption. Curfew begins at seven P.M. One might think this would be conducive to work, but the necessary atmosphere of concentration and peace is missing. So we all sit sunk in our armchairs.