If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles. — Roger Ebert 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
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite body part nor do I have a favorite exercise. Everyone who is honest prefers machines over free-weights,… — Nasser El Sonbaty Copy Share Image
“Purple salvia: A flowering herb in the mint family with upright spikes of violet blooms whose earthy, herbal scent enhances concentration” — Meg Donohue Copy Share Image
I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his… — Wladimir Klitschko Copy Share Image
When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Not all activities are equal... Those that involve genuine concentration - studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing -… — Norman Doidge Copy Share Image
A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history.… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty. — Jimmy Swaggart Copy Share Image
If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could… — Frederick Lenz 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
When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to… — Bob Toski Copy Share Image
To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have used the majority of our carbon budget and we are already at dangerous levels of CO2 concentrations, about 400 parts… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
