Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container… — William of Norwich Copy Share Image
As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
The manufacturing industry is starting to press for some kind of national healthcare. Now it's beginning to put it on the agenda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to… — Virgil van Dijk Copy Share Image
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
In advanced meditation there are methods and formations of joining the mind with the various aggregate aspects of the universe, fusing it,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I never really had much problem scoring a fight, you call it the way you see it. The most important thing is… — Harold Lederman Copy Share Image
An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing… — Ian Gawler Copy Share Image
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Who knows how many artists fail because the light that shines through them is defracted in a thousand directions and not concentrated… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you… — Jean Stapleton Copy Share Image
If your child is going to develop a healthy personality with the capacity to remain intact and grow, she must learn how… — Stanley Greenspan Copy Share Image
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come… — John Banville Copy Share Image
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
