I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
After I started getting criticism for doing 'Big Brother,' someone told me that Hugh Downs used to host 'Concentration' and Mike Wallace… — Julie Chen Copy Share Image
Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“By repeatedly bringing your attention back to the breath each time it wanders off, concentration builds and deepens, much as muscles develop… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We have used the majority of our carbon budget and we are already at dangerous levels of CO2 concentrations, about 400 parts… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Marx… Lenin… Mao Tse-Tung… These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Golf is like acting in that both require concentration and relaxation at the same time. In acting, you can't push emotion. You… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption. — Steve Wynn Copy Share Image
Whatever your issue is, whether it's racism or homophobia or policy issues or taxes or urban decay or health care, you're not… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
There are some surprising payoffs with only a few minutes' practice, like eliminating the loss of concentration that multitasking usually brings. Short… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The State certainly played a decisive role. I also believe that it may have stemmed from the rivalry itself. Grow or die,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Well, of course one must have concentration. Courage. Self-control. That goes without saying. But more important than these, one must have... I… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus… — John Sarbanes Copy Share Image
Exposures, if they are mild, in the sense of barely just a small concentration, it's mostly an irritant, particularly the peroxides, that… — Anthony S. Fauci Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family… — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
The similarity is that concentration of capital influences virtually everything that goes on. It influences the way the media functions, it very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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