Concentrated Quotes

283 quotes by 235 authors

Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are… — Howard Zinn
To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think thatâ€™s a thing people donâ€™t understand. It… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really… — Jon Secada
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised… — Ronald Reagan
Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere â€“ on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself… — Roddy Doyle
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms… — Walter Bagehot
Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention. — James Arthur Ray
The more a person feels skilled, the more her moods will improve; while the more challenges that are present, the more her attention will become… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena "signs," the sceptics "coincidence," and psychologists "concentrated… — Paulo Coelho
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If… — Monica Dickens
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to… — George Eliot
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a… — Mahatma Gandhi
Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated. — Unknown Author
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that… — Jerry Gillies
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable… — Gabrielle Hamilton
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom. — Herbert Hoover
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary… — Joe Conason
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in… — Walter Bagehot
During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so… — Fritjof Capra

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