By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were.… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, you’ll concentrate just on your website but when you take your focus off of it, you’ll realize that… — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size,… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is… — Karl G. Maeser Copy Share Image
The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“When I was young I studied in the west suburb, with the birds of the forest as my only neighbours. I would… — Wang Chieh Copy Share Image
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children, in the present dark age of materialism, chanting the mantra is the easiest way for us to obtain inner purification and… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed… — Jacob Bronowski 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
“It didn’t just boost your concentration. It made you enjoy work. You couldn’t wait to get back to the keyboard, the breadboard,… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I may be more passionate about my comedy because that's the one place where I feel comfortable - because I'm in the… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Determined eyes see less sleep; a focused mind has less time for idleness. Hearts filled with tenacity don’t just give up. When… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an… — Roddy McDowall Copy Share Image
Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit. — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
Thought control is the ability to direct mind and attention anywhere. Your ability to win is dependent upon the power of your… — Frederick Lenz 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
It's us that's really amazing. As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on… — Raymond A. Spruance Copy Share Image
He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction… — John Herman Randall Copy Share Image
There's no question you get caught up in the drama but I always concentrate on whose winning and whose losing that's for… — Harold Lederman Copy Share Image
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea,… — Max Bill Copy Share Image
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course,… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
