Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established… — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
“It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents… — Henry Moore 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
The world beyond 450 ppm atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the world that crosses carbon cycle tipping points that quickly take us… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to… — Miss Read Copy Share Image
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it… — Zhang Sanfeng Copy Share Image
Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then,… — Ann Makosinski Copy Share Image
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles…… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
“Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?” “I . . . had trouble concentrating.” “So you came up on deck,” Jasnah said,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
In meditation you first get sense control. And yoga will help you with the body and when the mind is steady, concentration… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Without concentration, a business will be ordinary in every respect, because it will have no presence, no inner force, no way to… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image