“Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration.” — Peter Straub (Author Copy Share Image
High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“But belligerence was a poor aid to concentration, as were three gins and a bottle of wine” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts. — George Murray Copy Share Image
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished? — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing -… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The busyness of things obscures our concentration on God ... Never let a hurried lifestyle disturb the relationship of abiding in Him.… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love challenges, I love intensity, and I also like to challenge my mind. Believe it or not, boxing is not only… — Adriana Lima Copy Share Image
“And since nothing whatever happens to us outside our own brain; since nothing hurt us or gives us pleasure except within the… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers;… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite body part nor do I have a favorite exercise. Everyone who is honest prefers machines over free-weights,… — Nasser El Sonbaty Copy Share Image
The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I feel like, in a way, after doing it for so many years, you learn a certain concentration and how to turn… — Maria Bello Copy Share Image
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. — William Westney Copy Share Image
Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“Concentration is another name for what we have called activity in reading. The good reader reads actively, with concentration.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration. — Karishma Tanna Copy Share Image
The Philadelphia region does have capital, but there's no concentration of it. — Josh Kopelman Copy Share Image
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy. — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it. — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward. — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If you lose your concentration singing harmony, then it's lackluster and no fun to watch. — Phil Everly Copy Share Image
