I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an… — Roddy McDowall Copy Share Image
“Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenacity don’t just give up. When… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I may be more passionate about my comedy because that's the one place where I feel comfortable - because I'm in the… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When you play against good people, that's when you focus your concentration. Your sense of urgency to be disciplined in your execution… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a state, often defined as deep dreamless sleep awake. But, in the same way that you cannot sleep on demand,… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The [concentration camps] were swarming with photographers and every new picture of horror served only to diminish the total effect. Now, for… — Robert Capa Copy Share Image
When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“It didn’t just boost your concentration. It made you enjoy work. You couldn’t wait to get back to the keyboard, the breadboard,… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size,… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, you’ll concentrate just on your website but when you take your focus off of it, you’ll realize that… — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
“cultivating “concentration so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant, or to worry about problems.”)” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Now, admittedly, my power of concentration is and always has been extraordinary since my army training! In fact, other people say it… — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
Concentration's like a shower. You don't turn it on until you want to bathe... You don't walk out of the shower and… — Garfield Sobers Copy Share Image
Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image