No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. — Sylvia Porter Copy Share Image
Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence. — Walter J. Phillips 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
But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation. — Natalia Makarova 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
Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness… — Tom Lehman Copy Share Image
Holocaust is very much a part of present discussion all over the place. There are little plaques everywhere you go around in… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,” said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me… — Christer Kihlman Copy Share Image
A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration,… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the… — Al Alvarez 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
One of the things that makes me a conservative, or a libertarian, or whatever the heck it is that I am -… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
When I began research, I read the writings of the Sonderkommandos. They are not well known, but these prisoners wrote from the… — Laszlo Nemes Copy Share Image
