Concentration Quotes · Page 5

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no…

— Larry McMurtry

Right there is the usefulness of migraine, there in that imposed yoga, the concentration on the pain. For when the pain recedes,…

— Joan Didion

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.

— Woody Allen

Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I…

— Steven Yeun

The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of…

— Wojciech Kurtyka

Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that…

— Alice Waters

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

— Zane Grey

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the…

— Norman Jewison

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are…

— Marion Bartoli

My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative…

— Jasper Fforde

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

— Hugh Prather

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it…

— Hans Hofmann

Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and…

— Nolan Ryan

The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that…

— John Szarkowski

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

— Frederick Lenz

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming…

— David Foster Wallace

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at…

— Napoleon Hill

The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.

— Maria Montessori

Concentration is sometimes mistaken for grumpiness.

— Michael Atherton

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

— Mercedes McCambridge

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk,…

— Peter McWilliams

We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained…

— Naomi Wolf

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more…

— Philip Roth

“Turn your actions into concentrated practices.”

— Belsebuub

There are partnerships based on principle. There are partnerships based on pragmatism. And fortunately, when it comes to Indo-American relations, both concentrations…

— Manmohan Singh