Concentration Quotes

Music requires a lot of attention and concentration.

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

“Picture the arrow; nothing but the arrow.”

— S. R. Ford

Focus means not having to know everything.

— Anonymous

It's all about concentration when you're tired.

— Demaryius Thomas

You need 100 percent concentration on golf to succeed.

— John Daly

I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.

— Donald McCaig

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.

— Bill Russell

“Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration.”

— Peter Straub (Author

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

— Jimmy Swaggart

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

— Luc Tuymans

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

— Elias Canetti

Dignity and quiet joy in all that we do are the expression of perfect concentration and perfect wisdom.

— Gautama Buddha

Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye.

— Robert Henri

I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head.

— Jack Nicklaus

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

— Anil Ambani

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

— Imre Kertész

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course,…

— Barney Frank

There's no question you get caught up in the drama but I always concentrate on whose winning and whose losing that's for…

— Harold Lederman

I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea,…

— Max Bill

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change…

— Lawrence Lessig

Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction…

— John Herman Randall

He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot…

— Swami Vivekananda

“What should concentration (ekagrata) be like? Even whilst getting up-sitting down, eating-drinking or quarreling, concentration does not falter. Throughout the entire body,…

— Dada Bhagwan

What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you…

— Frederick Lenz

My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing…

— Audre Lorde

We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In…

— Will Durant

One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here…

— Dale Carnegie

But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at…

— Andre Dubus

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to…

— Milton Friedman

It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading…

— Stewart O'Nan

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Difficulties with material things often come to remind us that our concentration should be on spiritual things instead of material things. Sometimes…

— Peace Pilgrim

I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.…

— B. C. Forbes

“We often think that combining tasks will save us time, but scientific evidence shows that it has the opposite effect. Even those…

— Hector Garcia Puigcerver

“...Learn to concentrate, to give all your attention to the thing at hand, and then to be able to put it aside…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.…

— Muriel Spark

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to…

— Maria Montessori

The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the…

— Joan Didion

Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look…

— Jean Baudrillard