Concentrating Quotes

179 Concentrating quotes by 165 unique authors

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now. — Vivienne Westwood
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching. — Tennessee Williams
If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you… — Jodi Picoult
She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn't quite that he was biting it, but sucking it… — Melissa Marr
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the… — Julio Cortazar
I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control. — David Foster Wallace
Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the… — Khalil Gibran
Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what… — Andy Andrews
But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at… — Nicholson Baker
I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. Itâ€™s actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our… — Sheri S. Tepper
Why can't I go to Idris with you, then? Because it's not safe for you there O and it's safe for me here? I've been… — Cassandra Clare
You okay? (Grace) Oh, yeah. Iâ€™m just fine considering the fact Iâ€™ve walked through burning fires that hurt less than my groin does right now.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story. — Jay Asher
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and… — Mark Haddon
Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer,… — A. Lee Martinez
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people… — David Foster Wallace
Iâ€™m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, Iâ€™m the type of person who doesnâ€™t… — Haruki Murakami
That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother's palm and fingertips, he was… — Aimee Bender
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentrationâ€¦ tearing away the veils,… — Francis Bacon
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom,… — Milton Friedman

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