Concentrating Quotes - Page 2

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Time, Memories

Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.73, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

Abhinavagupta

Life, Faith, Spiritual

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The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.

Shane MacGowan

Spiritual, Work, Drinking

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Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

Adeline Yen Mah

Revenge, Healing, Payback

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One of the worst features about worrying is that it destroys our ability to concentrate. When we worry, our minds jump here and there and everywhere, and we lose all power of decision. However, when we force ourselves to face the worst and accept it mentally, we then eliminate all those vague imaginings and put ourselves in a position in which we are able to concentrate on our problem.

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Change, Acceptance

Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.26, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.

Paul J. Meyer

Weakness, Problem, Drive And Determination

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Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Gautama Buddha

Life, Buddhist, Buddhism

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Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally.

Sergio Garcia

Golf, Four, Hours

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A leading difficulty with the average player is that he totally misunderstands what is meant by concentration. He may think he is concentrating hard when he is merely worrying.

Bobby Jones

Golf, Player, Thinking

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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?

John D. Rockefeller

Art, Mind, Done

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Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.

A. Lee Martinez

Accomplishment, Office, Dying

A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.119, Macmillan

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You okay? (Grace) Oh, yeah. I’m just fine considering the fact I’ve walked through burning fires that hurt less than my groin does right now. (Julian) I said I was sorry. Okay, can you reach the pedals? (Grace) I’d like to reach your pedals…(Julian) Julian! Would you concentrate? (Grace) All right. I’m concentrating. (Julian) I don’t mean on my breasts. (He dropped his hungry gaze to her lap.) Or there, either. (Grace)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Hurt, Sorry, Mean

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I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

Mark Haddon

Dog, Lying, Thinking

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". Book by Mark Haddon, www.abc.net.au. May, 2003.

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That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

David Foster Wallace

Hurt, Kindness, Fall

"Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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Why can't I go to Idris with you, then? Because it's not safe for you there O and it's safe for me here? I've been nearly killed almost a dozen times in the past month. That's because Valentine has been concentrating on the two Mortal Instruments that were here. He's going to shift his focus to Idris now. We all know it-- We're hardly as certain of anything as all that. And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace. The Clave can screw itself.

Cassandra Clare

Valentine, Past, Two

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And concentrating on the spot where the two spindles should be is the closest I get to looking Hannah's eyes as she tells my story.

Jay Asher

Eye, Two, Stories

Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.214, Penguin

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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. All efforts are to be directed simply to removing the veil of ignorance. Concentrating the mind solely on the Self will lead to happiness or bliss. Drawing in the thoughts, restraining them and preventing them from straying outwards is called detachment (vairagya). Fixing them in the Self is spiritual practice (sadhana). Concentrating on the heart is the same as concentrating on the Self. Heart is another name for Self.

Ramana Maharshi

Spiritual, Heart, Ignorance

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When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

Richey Edwards

Depression, Pain, Cutting

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Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.

Ralph Levy

Beautiful, Nice, Winter

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

Alexander Graham Bell

Success, Perseverance, Men

Interview in "How They Succeeded" by Orison Swett Marden, Chapter 2, 1901.

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I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in terms of the grossly undifferentiated picture of aggregate food supply for the economy as a whole.

Amartya Sen

People, Poverty, Problem

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It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading theorists are striving, with the help of experimentalists, to devise a single mathematical theory that embraces all the basic phenomena of matter and energy. The other two are in biology. Biologists-and the rest of us too-would like to know how the brain works and how a single cell, the fertilized egg cell, develops into an entire organism

Dennis Flanagan

Science, Cells, Eggs

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Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst — and that brings the whole country down.

Jennifer Granholm

Country, Practice, Hands

"Facts show Democrats are job creators" by Jennifer Granholm, www.politico.com. May 15, 2012.

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Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in the one area - that's what it takes to be a champion.

Chris Evert

Softball, Sports, Motivation

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During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

Ching Hai

Spiritual, Inspiration, Meditation

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