If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a…

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting.…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“Exceptional work is always associated with periods of deep concentration. Nothing excellent ever comes from a scattered effort.”

— Kevin Horsley

Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

— Ferguson Jenkins

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

— Elia Kazan

I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100…

— Yuan Yuan Tan

“Apply the blacksmith's homely principle when you are speaking. If you feel deeply about your subject you will be able to think of little…

— Dale Carnegie

Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be…

— Ian Gawler

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

— Gautama Buddha

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff

If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .…

— Paul Copan

... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking…

— Steve McConnell

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

— Herbert Spencer

Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles… So my…

— Frank Laubach