Concentration Quotes

618 Concentration quotes by 463 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a… — E F Schumacher
Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person,… — Rose Wilder Lane
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration… — Woodrow Wilson
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the… — Andrew Carnegie
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence. — Peter L. Berger
You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you… — Sri Chinmoy
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and… — Harrison Ford
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If… — Ajahn Chah
Nothing can be defined or derided on the basis of its origin. The important thing is what is done with it and how far a… — Eduardo Galeano

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