Quotes About Concentration

Practicing slowly (combined with active listening) is the first concrete practice technique I've

I explained to her that hypnosis wasn't magic, simply a combination of focused concentration and deep relaxation, that people tended to remember things more clearly when they were relaxed and that was why the police used it for witnesses.

ritual heightens grief, makes it momentous, enforces concentration on its object who is yet gone for so short a time that it is unimaginable that he will not come back – the conviction of death's certainty is founded on prolonged exposure to absence rather than on the presence of the meat in the coffin or on bearing witness to the agent (physical or chemical, alien or quisling, sudden or chronic) of that immeasurable change.

Lockwood… Through half-closed eyes I watched him now, trapping him tight between my lashes.

Patience is the prime virtue. If you hurry, you will fail. And failure is painful. You must always relax and concentrate on the task in hand.

Remember—we shouldn't be able to see them," I said. "Keep looking straight ahead.

Sure, equal pay, maternity leaves, and pro sports are important. But a girl can't make a free throw from the foul line if her head's not in the game.

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind.

adolescente, que aún no está acostumbrado a renunciar —no sabe decir no—, quiere abarcar demasiadas cosas y se dispersa, y la dispersión es la mejor manera de no avanzar, por pérdida de energías.

First, power concentrates. That is, it feeds on itself and compounds (as does powerlessness). • Second, power justifies itself. People invent stories to legitimize the power they have (or lack). • Third, power is infinite. There is no inherent limit on the amount of power people can create.

years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous words: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Trade Unionist.

When I worked as a programmer, that meant eight straight hours of programming without interruption. That was a good day. In contrast, if I was interrupted with questions, process, or—heaven forbid—meetings, I felt bad.

begin this chapter by reviewing the evidence that many users indeed do develop and modify products for their own use in many fields. I then show that innovation is concentrated among lead users, and that lead users' innovations often become commercial products.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

Shut up, I'm thinking! -Jayfeather (Night Whispers)

I must learn to focus on what I'm supposed to be doing!

I'm not the distraction in the room.' 'Oh? And what might be?' -Nora & Patch (PG 242)

Don't hold my hand in here. It's hard for me to concentrate when you do." "You do realize that makes it even more tempting.

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse [...] stuck in my mind because of the subject's flagrant health and safety violation. As any competent practitioner will tell you, you always complete your protective circle *before* you start your workings.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Her eyes were narrowed as if they were endlessly trying to exclude most of what they saw.

Tim's energy and ability to concentrate for long stretches always astonished me.

so I focused as much as I could on the specific task at hand

half-life. Preparations with high lipid solubility, such as diazepam and alprazolam, are absorbed rapidly from the GI tract and distribute rapidly to the brain by passive diffusion along a concentration gradient, resulting in a rapid onset of action. However, as the concentration of the medication increases in the brain and decreases in the bloodstream, the concentration gradient reverses itself, and these medications leave the brain rapidly, resulting in fast cessation of drug effect.