“Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can… — Anne Lamott 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
Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well. — Al Oerter Copy Share Image
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus,… — Ernst Fischer Copy Share Image
Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
When there are no gas chambers, no barbed wire, and no concentration camps, many don't recognize the perpetration of new genocides and… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to… — Milton Friedman 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
Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill. — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
