Concentration Quotes

618 quotes by 478 authors

To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess. — Paul Halmos
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of heredity, development and… — C. D. Darlington
Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Clifford Shull
I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation,… — Max Bill
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area… — Henepola Gunaratana
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day… — Chris Evert
An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing… — Johan Oscar Smith
I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the… — John Lennon
This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood. — Randy Moss
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the… — Leon Uris
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to… — Maya Angelou
Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished? — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an integral weakness of his make-up… — Max Euwe
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from… — John Szarkowski
A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player — Bobby Fischer
Chess demands total concentration — Bobby Fischer
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.… — Milton Friedman
I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has… — Michael Myers

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