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• The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

  Dan Millman

  Fighting, Secret, Energy

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• Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Mind, Habit, Dependable

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Focus, How You Feel

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2012

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• By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

  Bruno Walter

  Technique, Doe, Precision

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• The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

  John M. Ford

  Writing, Character, Use

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• I draw and play the piano badly. But when I’m doing those things, I’m concentrating so hard there’s no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Play, Piano, Worry

  "Eddie Redmayne and Emma Stone on Acting, Fame and Protecting Their Privacy". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2015.

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• You may lose again and again... and again because you always think of success, but you can have success because you never think of it but concentrating your right work only.

  Khem Veasna

  Thinking, May, Again And Again

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• In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Hygiene, Best Effort

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• When there are no avenues of escape or one is caught even before any attempt to escape can be made, then for the first time the use of self-defense techniques should be considered. Even at times like these, do not show any intention of attacking, but first let the attacker become careless. At that time attack him concentrating one's whole strength in one blow to a vital point and in the moment of surprise, escape and seek shelter and help.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Blow, Times Like These, Self

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• We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.

  Will Durant

  Views, Concentration Of Wealth, Economic History

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if you become a person two or three sizes bigger than your ordinary physical self, and that you are flowing with all your being toward the object of your concentration. Whether it is a physical thing or an image that you are concentrating on, your whole invisible person will be in movement.

  Michael Chekhov

  Self, Two, Expansion

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• Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Player, Playing Chess, Limits

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• Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Motivation, Mistake, Character

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• I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

  Paulo Coelho

  Music, Eye, People

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• I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.

  Robin Green

  Sight, Vision, Lost

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• One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the heart's ocean of bliss.

  Jaideva Singh

  Ocean, Yoga, Heart

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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• By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

  Robert Cialdini

  Trying, Tasks, Attention

  Robert B. Cialdini (1988). “Influence: science and practice”, Pearson Scott Foresman

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• Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Investing, Buffets

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• I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Writing, Special, Trying

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• Living simply means concentrating on what's important in light of eternity. And not taking the rest of life too seriously.

  Annie Chapman

  Mean, Simple, Light

  Annie Chapman (2005). “Simplify Your Hectic Life”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Persistence, Rocks

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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• Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

  Jack Kornfield

  Skills, Meditation, Mind

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Player, Meditation

  Harvey Penick (2011). “The Game for a Lifetime: More Lessons and Teachings”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.

  Lisa Williams

  People, Complaining, Easy

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