Concentration Quote by Carlos Fuentes

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

— Julia Leigh

Movie acting, I later realized, reminds me of contract bridge. Each requires the same concentration, intense short-term memory, and obliviousness to everything else until…

— Gore Vidal

... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking…

— Steve McConnell

It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader.…

— Simon Armitage

Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with…

— Norman Doidge

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard…

— Sandra Brown

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what…

— Terry Tempest Williams

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

— Carole Maso

“Writing requires discipline, detailed thinking, good communication skills, a plan of action, clear vision, and a passion for people. CMT Stibbe”

— C.M.T. Stibbe

“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be…

— Terry Tempest Williams