Concentration Quotes

618 Concentration quotes by 463 unique authors

Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to… — Cesar Chavez
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. — Jack Kornfield
Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha’s path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom. — Jack Kornfield
Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big… — Tony Abbott
Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy… — Tom Lehman
Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells… — Adolf Hitler
It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its… — Sigfried Giedion
First and fore-most, you must have confidence. Your second mental problem is concentration. Think the shot through in advance before you address the ball. Draw… — Sam Snead
As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities… — Andrea Dworkin
When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration. — Helen Wills
The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy. — Maria Montessori
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is… — Donald Knuth
The only prudence in life is concentration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment. — Bill Parcells
I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion. — Zane Grey
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. — Friedrich List
Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this… — Maria Montessori
An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities,… — Maria Montessori
Concentration is a part of life. It is not the consequence of a method of education. — Maria Montessori
Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service. — Leon Trotsky
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful… — Eric Hobsbawm
Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We… — Sri Chinmoy
No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will… — Cyril Connolly
When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that… — Bob Toski

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