Concentration Quotes
618 Concentration quotes by 463 unique authors
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I’ll make Goyle do lines, it’ll kill him, he hates writing,†said Ron happily. He lowered his voice to Goyle’s low grunt and, screwing up…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
— John F. Kennedy
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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the…
— Mervyn Peake
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...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.
— Imre Kertész
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To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is…
— Nhat Hanh
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if…
— Pablo Picasso
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The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
— Alan Watts
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Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot…
— Elie Wiesel
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Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming…
— J R Ward
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What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more…
— David Foster Wallace
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Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
— Erich Fromm
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[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I…
— Tracy Hickman
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a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination;…
— E E Cummings
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When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into…
— Milan Kundera
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Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a…
— Norman Doidge
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It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But…
— Simon Armitage
Who Wrote These Concentration Quotes
463 authors contributed a total of 618 Concentration Quotes, led by these top contributors: