Quotes About Concentration

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing.

If we are distracted and read thoughtlessly, and then realize that we have indeed taken in all the words, but no concepts.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

El individuo es un vaso harto frágil para contender la aspiración infinita de la voluntad de la especie, concentrada en un objeto determinado.

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

The No. 2 pencils had been handed out. The timer had been started. But we had not even registered that the test had begun.

Faulty memory and distraction are a particular danger in what engineers call all-or-none processes: whether running to the store to buy ingredients for a cake, preparing an airplane for takeoff, or evaluating a sick person in the hospital, if you miss just one key thing, you might as well not have made the effort at all. A

and loss of focus.

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know.

Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

He had to say; words were a lens to focus one's mind, and he could not use words for anything else tonight.

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

Being In The Present Means Tuning Out Distractions And Paying Attention To What Is Important, Now. You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.

all perception is but a change in the concentration of hydrogen ions on the surface of the brain cells.

The trance happens when you don't focus on anything.

If your mind and spirit are directed to your task, everything else will follow. Relax." "But focus," said Hermes. "Relaxation without focus leads to failure." "Focus without relaxation leads to failure just as surely," said Athena. "So concentrate . . ." said Perseus. "Exactly." ". . . but calmly?" "Concentrate calmly. You have it.

In normal speech and prose our thoughts and feelings are diluted (by stock phrases and roundabout approximations); in poetry those thoughts and feelings can be, must be, concentrated.

Beg your pardon, the gunslinger said. I was wool-gathering.

i'm not able to concentrate like others doing i'm lagging day by day ! when you got this in your mind this represents you are leading not lagging.

Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

It wasn't that I was lazy- I was a bloody hard worker- I just found concentrating on one thing particularly difficult when I had such mammoth internal battles going on. Only when I was physically exhausted did I seem to manage a modicum of internal peace, when my mind would stop ticking over. I needed to try and get to grips with it all. There was a very little awareness about 'mental health' in those days. I just felt like I was mad

Distractions are the enemy of greatness.