Concentration Quotes

618 quotes by 463 authors

Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together. — Ajay Naidu
As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as… — Ayya Khema
I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave… — Susan Vreeland
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration. — Louise Brooks
The two great aims of industrialism â€” replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy â€” seem… — Wendell Berry
Concentration is that ability to not think about anything. — Pete Rose
I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the… — Viktor E. Frankl
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in… — Will Durant
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all… — Will Durant
When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if… — Michael Chekhov
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. — Elizabeth Bishop
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing… — John D. Rockefeller
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The… — Orison Swett Marden
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. — Ingrid Newkirk
If that hideousness came here [to the U.S.], it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals-they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway.… — Ingrid Newkirk
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or… — Peter Zumthor
The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves.… — Menachem Begin
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the… — George W. Bush

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