Concentration Quotes - Page 3

• To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.126, Open Road Media

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• Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Kindness, Promise

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• The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mind

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

  Tom Robbins

  Skills, Way, May

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• If you wish to see the thousand years, look at today; if you wish to understand the millionfold, then look at the one or the two.

  Xunzi

  Years, Two, Wish

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• The activity at this very moment must be the only thing that matters, to which one is fully given. If one is concentrated, it matters little what one is doing. The important, as well as the unimportant things, assume a new dimension of reality, because they have one's full attention.

  Erich Fromm

  Reality, Unimportant Things, Littles

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

  Hans Frank

  Police, Matter, Administration

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

  Leonard Maltin

  United States, Palaces, Los Angeles

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• Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Teenage, Blessing, Thinking

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• I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Men, Existence

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Character, Long, Waiting

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.

  Ferguson Jenkins

  Motivational, Baseball, Attitude

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• I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way

  Steve Wozniak

  Real, Engineering, Focus

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• Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

  Robert Reich

  Concentration Of Wealth, Democracy, Concerned

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

  Virginia Woolf

  Glowing, Romance, Together

  Virginia Woolf (1990). “A moment's liberty: the shorter diary”, Vintage

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• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Then I realized that to be really good at this requires a lot of energy and concentration and skill.

  Ron Silver

  Skills, Energy, I Realized

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

  Tom Kite

  Sports, Golf, Discipline

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• The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

  John Boyd Orr

  Real, Evil, Police

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• It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

  James Laughlin

  Thinking, Groups, Responsible

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• No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

  Albert Speer

  Mean, Order, Doubt

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• The Supreme Court of the United States has validated the Nazi method of execution in concentration camps, starving them to death.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Execution, United States, Nazi

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, p. 329, 2004.

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• Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

  Alva Myrdal

  Country, Citizens, Becoming

  Alva Myrdal, Cecilia Åse, Yvonne Hirdman (2002). “"Något kan man väl göra: texter 1932-1982”

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