Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade.… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which… — David Frost Copy Share Image
The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say,… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder.… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand.… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social… — Dustin Diamond Copy Share Image
In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies… — Nomi Prins Copy Share Image
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece… — Menachem Mendel Schneerson Copy Share Image
Success in anything is about focus and concentration. When I coached, I'd say to the players, 'Yes, I know you played hard,… — Rick Barry Copy Share Image
I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. — Questlove Copy Share Image
Because America isn't perfect, it must be evil. Because Marxist regimes make claims of perfection, they must be good. ... Remind me… — Ron Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
Kyra Sedgwick told me, 'Keep your heart where your feet are' and that's incredibly difficult to do. It takes a lot of… — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
There are many things I can do, but I have to narrow it down to the one thing I must do. The… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special… — Joseph Mawle Copy Share Image
In the enlightenment cycle, attention is paid to bringing back the awareness field from other lives. This does not simply mean memory,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Large corporations are amassing so much power in our economy. Sometimes it's called market concentration or even old-fashioned monopolies. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Once all come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a… — Harvey Spencer Lewis Copy Share Image
My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important.… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians… — Walter Schellenberg Copy Share Image
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College… — Jenna Ushkowitz Copy Share Image
I was working more on a primal, instinctive level. And it just seemed to suit me; it seemed to suit my concentration… — Ron Perlman Copy Share Image