Concentration Quotes

618 Concentration quotes by 463 unique authors

The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is… — Rajneesh
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness. It is not… — Rajneesh
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of… — Strom Thurmond
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill… — Pete du Pont
I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't… — David Icke
A Buddha is not a man of concentration, he is a man of awareness. He has not been trying to narrow down his consciousness; on… — Rajneesh
To help your concentration, don't take too much time. — Unknown Author
When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration. — Unknown Author
Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and my perfect delivery. — Nolan Ryan
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
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].… — Unknown Author
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

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