Concentration Quotes

618 quotes by 463 authors

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. — Marilyn vos Savant
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting… — Tom Selleck
But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration,… — Roger Sessions
My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground… — Gene Simmons
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish… — Lee Trevino
I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have… — Jenna Ushkowitz
In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. — Elie Wiesel
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration. — Serena Williams
I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose. — Virginia Woolf
I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It… — Joseph Mawle
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic… — Philip Roth
We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills… — Naomi Wolf
So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They… — Haruki Murakami
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They… — Viktor E. Frankl
It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman* — Toni Morrison
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else. — Madeleine L'Engle
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to… — Aldous Huxley
But still, Iâ€™d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I… — Barbara Kingsolver
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits… — Viktor E. Frankl

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