Concentration Quotes

618 quotes by 463 authors

Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and… — Rajneesh
The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration.… — Nhat Hanh
To concentrate implies bringing all your energy to focus on a certain point; but thought wanders away... Whereas attention has no control, no concentration. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is the difference between attention and inattention? What is attention and what is concentration? ...Attention has no centre. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
To be concentrated means to live fully in the present. — Erich Fromm
The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters… — Erich Fromm
The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from trying… — Henry Moore
Concentrate: you can't have it all. — Twyla Tharp
A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres. — Henri Matisse
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you… — Anna Quindlen
The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. — Arthur Miller
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence… — Tom Robbins
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. — Michael Korda
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages, as with Beethoven.… — Stephen Spender
Concentrate on a single feature - as, build all toward one eye - make all lines lead toward that eye. — Robert Henri
I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration. — Frank Auerbach
Look that nothing live in thy working mind, but a naked intent stretching into God. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus
When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted… — Ken Livingstone
The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster. — Lucian Freud

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