Concentration Quotes

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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot… — Osbert Sitwell
The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if he had but… — Charles Spurgeon
O my Brothers! love your Country. Our Country is our home, the home which God has given us, placing therein a numerous family which we… — Giuseppe Mazzini
A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when… — Bobby Jones
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. — Nhat Hanh
Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the… — Charles de Gaulle
Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now. — Denis Waitley
Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a… — Brendan Shanahan
First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always… — Rozalia Galiyeva
The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other… — Ludmilla Tourischeva
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. — Ray Knight
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments… — Philip Yancey
Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is… — Mark Twain
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. — George Henry Lewes
The 'I' casts off the illusion of the 'I' and yet remains 'I'. Such is the paradox of Self-realization. The Realized do not see any… — Ramana Maharshi
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It is not one-pointedness,… — Rajneesh
Awareness means to listen to me unfocused - alert of course, not fallen asleep, but alert to these birds, their chirping, alert to the wind… — Rajneesh
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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