Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
“Shallan, weren't you supposed to be reading?” “I . . . had trouble concentrating.” “So you came up on deck,” Jasnah said,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Our mind is a flowing something. It oscillates. Concentration is merely the continuous return to the same problem from a million angles…… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
According to the World Bank, the concentration of wealth and the structures of corporate economic power have no bearing on woman's rights. — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
“Balancing so many things at once means that too often we only skim across the surface of an issue. As our concentration… — Donniel Hartman Copy Share Image
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 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
The theory of numbers is particularly liable to the accusation that some of its problems are the wrong sort of questions to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
If the relatively rich participating countries want to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, they will have to pay at least some… — Henry Sylvester Jacoby Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then,… — Ann Makosinski Copy Share Image
At some point you start seeing the difference between what you really want, and what is your priority order. I feel that… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
“It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement,… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established… — Eugen Kogon Copy Share Image
Concentration and mindfulness are the internal ways in which the mind restores itself from being out of balance and lost in confusion… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I don't like being called a denier because deniers don't believe in facts. There are no facts linking the concentration of atmospheric… — David Bellamy Copy Share Image
Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You do know what's coming up when you're translating. I suppose the concentration, then, is on finding a formulation which is speakable… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image