The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
We often praise 'the ability to multi-task.' While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to aiding… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
When I visited concentration camps, I was more interested in how people responded to the camps than in the actual places. I… — Rachel Whiteread Copy Share Image
Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied… — Phillip Thomas Copy Share Image
In a world suffering from mental stress, yoga promises calm. In a distracted world, yoga creates focus, creates concentration. In a world… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Emotional instability can be one of the factors giving rise to a failure by chess players in important duels. Under the influence… — Mark Dvoretsky Copy Share Image
The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing. It seems to me… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is no greater block to world peace or inner peace than fear. What we fear we tend to develop an unreasoning… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
[Albert]Camus had denounced the gulag and Stalin's trials. Today we can see that he was right. To say that there were concentration… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than… — Friedrich List Copy Share Image
There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do… — Srikumar Rao Copy Share Image
In Basketball or in football, we have to concentrate on our aim/goal, so that we can win the match. Same in life,… — Chakshu Aggarwal Copy Share Image
It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I think film requires a lot more patience and concentration and each day you're keeping the entire picture in your head throughout… — Shawnee Smith Copy Share Image
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift… — Madeleine Stowe Copy Share Image
Ice is remarkable in many ways. A simple experiment one can do at home is to add salt to an amount of… — Ira Flatow Copy Share Image
Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There are many direct biological benefits that result from higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Two of the most important are increased plant photosynthesis… — Keith E. Idso Copy Share Image
I do think that my work has gotten calmer, and that the violence of some of the earlier series was necessary to… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since… — Tom Selleck Copy Share Image
In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
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