Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power. — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only… — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
There are two sides to self-discovery, as in most things, an outer more popular side and an inner side. The popular side… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Inspiration can show up almost any time, though I have yet to see anyone scratching out melodic ideas on a restaurant napkin… — William P. Perry 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
I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Acting is like racing, you need the same concentration. You have to reach inside you and bring forth a lot of broken… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
The basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration. However, a… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I want to make my contribution to humanity so that there will be no more Auschwitzes. Children who are born wanted and… — Henry Morgentaler Copy Share Image
With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
Through the practice of concentration and various techniques, we silence the mind and we enter into a flow of perfect light. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 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
... 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
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
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
“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
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
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
