Quotes About Concentration

Ver es algo muy difícil, así que tienes que elegir qué ver y obviar lo demás.

When everything has become chaotic and uncertain, all that remains to guide you might be the character you constructed, previously, by aiming up and concentrating on the moment at hand.

Observo de cerca la mueca concentrada del final: parece como si todavía estuviera soñando. ¿Con qué soñabas, viejo soldado?

It's all down to knowing how to do it, knowing how to concentrate your mind on a single point, knowing how to abstract yourself sufficiently to bring about the hallucination and therefore substitute the dream of reality for reality itself.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.

The commitment to morality, or non-harming, is a source of tremendous strength, because it helps free the mind from the remorse of having done unwholesome actions. Freedom from remorse leads to happiness. Happiness leads to concentration. Concentration brings wisdom. And wisdom is the source of peace and freedom in our lives.

Without the steadiness of concentration, it is easy to get caught up in the feelings, perceptions, and thoughts as they arise. We take them to be self and get carried away by trains of association and reactivity.

The breath of the mind is attention 128

When a person is worried, working memory is occupied and decreases one's ability to perform effectively and efficiently.

She shut her eyes and summoned up her old rapport with her sister. Emptying her mind, she concentrated fiercely. She gasped to feel a surge of cold and wet, shuddering as a blast of cold wind probed her drying fur. But there was no sign of Squirrelpaw anywhere—just water, blasting air, and endless rock.

The single window had once provided a view of the Columbus skyline, but I'd spray-painted it completely black a few days after I moved in. I'd decided that everything outside the window was a distraction from my quest

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

but rather with a concentration of being, and with that we enter a different order.

La paura serve. Intanto è una forma di rispetto e anche di reverenza dovuta all'immensità del luogo che si attraversa. Il timore è la premessa della concentrazione. Non intralcia le mosse, ne aumenta la precisione.

The only way to consciously deactivate a thought is to activate another. In other words, the only way to deliberately withdraw your attention from one thought is to give your attention to another.

That's just the trouble, you make an effort to think about it. Concentrate entirely on your breathing, as if you had nothing else to do!" It took me a considerable time before I succeeded in doing what the Master wanted. But—I succeeded.

Would you like me to stop talking? Because I can. I have to concentrate, but it's possible

During the peak of my career, I used to pick the ball as soon it was released from the bowler's hands. And I hit the ball through the line.

You can't win in any sport without heavily concentrating on revenue generation. You have to be relentless in that regard if you are going to be able to afford the kind of players you need to compete at the highest level.

It was a relief to get dropped which is sad in a way because you never want to miss a game. But I was not performing and mentally I got to a stage where I was not concentrating and did not want to be there. I was not enjoying walking out there and feeling like I didn't know where the next run was coming from.

As a batsman, when you know a guy can hit you in the head, you're pretty reluctant to think about any other ball.

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

It's important in any project to remain focused.