Concentration Quotes · Page 13

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

— Thomas Jefferson

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

— Arthur Miller

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

— Stephen Hendry

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

— Jane Hirshfield

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

— Napoleon Hill

“You prove to people that you don’t pay attention to their words when they see that you don’t remember what they tell…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Practice is not a matter of years and months. It is a matter of concentration.

— Koichi Tohei

The only secret I can claim to have is concentration, and that's something that can't be taught.

— Lucian Freud

A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration,…

— Sergei Rachmaninoff

“Sow the seeds of hard work and you will reap the fruits of success. Find something to do, do it with all…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are…

— Marion Bartoli

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the…

— Spiro T. Agnew

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters…

— Lord Acton

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

— Frederick Lenz

“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

During the time of Atlantis, members of the Mystery Schools discovered and developed specific concentration exercises that they found would radically increase…

— Frederick Lenz

There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much…

— Lou Boudreau

The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial…

— Pope John Paul II

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I…

— Ernst Haas

The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star…

— Henry M. Morris

It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally…

— Anne Frank

“Our lives are so busy, and for many of us the demands are overwhelming. Some of us focus so much on the…

— Carlos Wallace

If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly…

— Ingrid Newkirk

Countries were told they had no incentives because of social ownership. The solution was privatization and profit, profit, profit. Privatization would replace…

— Joseph Stiglitz

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

— Mercedes McCambridge

My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.

— Trent Reznor

“Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I have always maintained that my concentration is only on my career and on nothing else.

— Priyamani

The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

— Nhat Hanh

It's not easy to focus every point, you know. You lose some concentration.

— Kei Nishikori

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

— Levon Helm

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliberate control of attention.”

— Daniel Kahneman

Narrow all your interests until the attitude of mind and heart and body is concentration on Jesus Christ.

— Oswald Chambers

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the…

— Louis L'Amour

“Get tuned in to the goals created from each dream and stay focused. You might miss the goals if you are not…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.

— Roger Ebert

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

— Hugh Prather

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

— Laurie R. King